No Proof Hamas Routinely Stole U.N. Aid, Israeli Military Officials Say

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/world/middleeast/hamas-un-aid-theft.html

For nearly two years, Israel has accused Hamas of stealing aid provided by the United Nations and other international organizations. The government has used that claim as its main rationale for restricting food from entering Gaza.

But the Israeli military never found proof that the Palestinian militant group had systematically stolen aid from the United Nations, the biggest supplier of emergency assistance to Gaza for most of the war, according to two senior Israeli military officials and two other Israelis involved in the matter.

In fact, the Israeli military officials said, the U.N. aid delivery system, which Israel derided and undermined, was largely effective in providing food to Gaza’s desperate and hungry population.

Now, with hunger at crisis levels in the territory, Israel is coming under increased international pressure over its conduct of the war in Gaza and the humanitarian suffering it has brought. Doctors in the territory say that an increasing number of their patients are suffering from — and dying of — starvation.

[Ping Tung]

1. "In war, truth is the first casualty." Aeschylus 5th Century B.C.

[Dave Bowman]

2. It's never Israel's fault, this nightmare is because hamas this and hamas that but almost always without proof.

[hlthe2b]

3. Yet a few continue to promote this to defend the indefensible.

(and NO, before the small vocal determined, immovable few descend on my post, I do not believe Hamas is anything but a horrible terrorist organization... But, I expect Israel NOT to be, and certainly not to ignore all those Geneva and other human rights conventions they've signed over the past decades since WWII. Yet, under Netanyahu's desperate efforts to stay in power at all costs, they largely have).

[Dave Bowman]

4. +1