How the ‘Neutral’ UN Is Helping Hamas Oppress Gazans and Fool the World
31st July 2025
Every day this week, hundreds of U.N. trucks stacked with pallets of humanitarian aid have exited Israeli-patrolled routes and rumbled into population centers in the Gaza Strip, where Israel has implemented daily pauses in military operations.
Many of those trucks, operating under enhanced Israeli protections introduced on Sunday, have not reached U.N. warehouses, according to Gazans and high-ranking Israeli military officers. Armed Hamas militants have hijacked them, the people said, and what aid has reached U.N. warehouses has disappeared into a patronage system controlled by Hamas.
Long-shuttered distribution sites for food aid at schools, mosques, and bakeries have remained so. Civilians have been forced to buy the aid, often still branded with the U.N. emblem, from sellers who charge exorbitant prices in order to pay heavy taxes to Hamas.
“Fifty trucks arrived yesterday at warehouses in Gaza City, and Hamas stole all of the aid,” said Moumen Al-Natour, a 30-year-old lawyer in the Gazan capital, on Tuesday. “Today, the aid went on sale in the black markets at very high prices.”
Al-Natour said a childhood friend, seeking to feed his family, joined a mob of hungry Gazans trying to loot the trucks and was trampled to death along with others.
Such Hamas-dominated violence and graft surrounding U.N. aid deliveries in Gaza is typical, several dozen civilians, Israeli officers, and others on the ground told the Washington Free Beacon.