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As Israel faces blame for the hunger crisis in Gaza, UN’s own data shows most of its aid is looted
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New data published last week by the U.N. agency UNOPS shows that most of its aid entering the war-torn Gaza Strip has been looted inside the Palestinian territory. UNOPS provides management services for the world body’s own humanitarian operations.
Despite this, condemnation of Israel over the hunger crisis in Gaza has been ramping up, prompting an increasing number of Western governments to declare intentions to recognize a Palestinian state as punishment, and leading some media outlets to totally tune out the role both international humanitarian organizations and Hamas, whose October 2023 mass terror attack in Israel started the nearly two-year-old war, have played in this catastrophe.
«Nobody is able to have nuance in this conflict or hold multiple truths and that’s part of why everybody from journalists to NGOs to U.N. officials, the pro-Palestine people, activists and advocates, parrot the same talking points that there’s no aid theft and that everything is Israel’s fault,» Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, told Fox News Digital.
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The IDF said that 121 trucks of aid from «the UN and the international community» crossed into Gaza on May 28, 2025. (IDF Spokesperson’s Unit)
Alkhatib, a Gaza-born American, said that while the U.N. and other NGOs were «playing politics» by ignoring their own failures so as not to jeopardize funding and because they are terrified of Hamas, Israeli leaders were also «exaggerating» claims about Hamas being the only ones to loot the aid. A close observer of events in Gaza, he described a chain of thievery and extreme price hikes perpetrated by civilians and merchants that have all contributed to the misery there.
He added that statements by some Israeli government ministers about cutting off aid to force Gazans out of the territory have not helped either.
«Their statements have become the story under which nothing else will fit… no amount of evidence, no amount of clarification, no amount of nuance is going to come anywhere near to grabbing that much attention,» Alkhatib said.
Farhan Aziz Haq, a spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres, confirmed to Fox News Digital that some aid had been stolen but said it was because so few supplies had entered Gaza in recent months that «people facing hunger have resorted to offloading supplies directly from our convoys,» he said.
«We understand the frustration, but let’s be clear: this isn’t our system. It’s what happens when aid is squeezed through too few routes after months of deprivation,» he claimed, adding «only a steady, reliable flow of aid and commercial supplies can restore people’s belief that aid will arrive and allow for safe, orderly distributions,» he claimed.
Information posted on the website of UNOPS, the U.N. Office for Project Services, shows that around 87%, or 1,753 of the 2,013 aid trucks that entered Gaza since May 19 did not reach their final destinations, with the aid being stolen either «peacefully by hungry people or forcefully by armed actors.»
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The data, which showed that a record 90 trucks carrying some 1,695 tons of aid were looted on May 31 alone, comes as shocking photos of emaciated Palestinian children – some of which were later proven to be children with pre-existing health conditions used as propaganda by Hamas – have gone viral.
The revelations about the U.N.’s faulty aid system also come amid worldwide condemnation of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a new U.S. and Israel-backed aid distribution mechanism, devised, in part, to prevent aid from falling into Hamas’ hands. The U.N. has refused to cooperate with the GHF. The aid group announced on Sunday that it had delivered nearly 105 million meals to Gazans since it started operations in May.
It also comes in sharp contrast to reports by some media outlets who chose to ignore evidence of Hamas stealing and reselling aid in order to fund its ongoing war – seemingly as a way to suggest that Israel is using starvation as a tactic of war or committing «genocide.» Israel has emphatically denied both claims.
Israel’s Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) posted this photo that shows humanitarian aid pallets waiting to be distributed in Gaza. (COGAT)
A recent article in the New York Times even went as far as reporting that there was «no proof» that Hamas had stolen U.N. aid, despite countless documented accounts, including from freed Israeli hostages who reported seeing stockpiles of U.N.-branded products inside Hamas tunnels.
Kobi Michael, a senior researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv, said that not only did human rights organizations and many media outlets base their faulty reports on information published by Gaza’s Ministry of Health, which is run by Hamas, they also did not «take the nature of Hamas seriously.»
«Hamas is not the most reliable source in the world,» he said, adding that «the international media and other sources do not consider the interests of Hamas, or its strategy, and they do not seem to acknowledge that Hamas wants a chaotic situation in the Gaza Strip. Hamas wants there to be many casualties among Palestinian civilians, because it serves their interests.»
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«Just to listen to what Hamas leaders have been saying since October 7,» Michael continued. «They have promised to repeat October 7 again and again, they have called on the Arab world to join the armed resistance against Israel and on the Arab public to pressure their regimes.
«They have also said publicly, and loudly, that they have no problem sacrificing another 100,000 Palestinian civilians for the sake of the victory,» he said.
Hamas terrorists stand in formation as Palestinians gather on a street to watch the handover of three Israeli hostages to a Red Cross team in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza, on Feb. 8, 2025. (Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Yet the GHF has faced scrutiny and blame for the humanitarian disaster unfolding in Gaza amid daily reports by Hamas-backed bodies of civilian deaths at or near their aid distribution points and following chaotic images of people fighting over the food packages or sheltering from gunfire. The new agency has hit back, saying that Hamas, the U.N. and other international aid agencies, are just hoping the initiative fails so they can control all aid operations in Gaza.
On Friday, U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, together with U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, visited southern Gaza to inspect one of GHF’s aid distribution sites.
«Went into Gaza today & observed humanitarian food program by U.S. launched GHF. Hamas hates GHF b/c it gets food to ppl w/o it being looted by Hamas. Over 100 MILLION meals served in 2 months,» Huckabee wrote in a post on X.
U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee and Special Envoy Steve Witkoff speak with an aid worker in Gaza as they visit a distribution site run by the U.S.- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. (Gaza Humanitarian Foundation)
David Makovsky, director of the Koret Project on Arab-Israel Relations at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, said blame for the crisis should not be placed on one party but that «by bringing the U.N.’s own records to bear we can level-set the conversation.
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«There is a whole debate about GHF, which will not be settled today,» he noted. «Yet, in a humanitarian emergency crisis, feeding people should take absolute top priority and I think it is incumbent for the U.N. and GHF to work together to feed people.
«I hope that by bringing in lots of food into Gaza you can help innocent suffering people and also dramatically bring down black market rates exploited by Hamas which they use to control their people,» said Makovsky.
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Republican and Democratic congressional leaders left a meeting with President Donald Trump with no deal to avert a government shutdown as the deadline fast approaches.
Leaders met with Trump on Monday for roughly an hour to negotiate a path forward to avert a partial government shutdown, but it appeared neither side was willing to budge from their position.
Vice President JD Vance said after the meeting, «I think we’re headed into a shutdown because the Democrats won’t do the right thing. I hope they change their mind.»
«If you look at the original they did with this negotiation, it was a $1.5 trillion spending package, basically saying the American people want to give massive amounts of money, hundreds of billions of dollars to illegal aliens for their health care, while Americans are struggling to pay their health care bills,» Vance said. «That was their initial foray into this negotiation. We thought it was absurd.»
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Vice President JD Vance, Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., and Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought spoke to reporters after congressional leaders met with President Donald Trump on Sept. 29, 2025. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Democrats, however, have pushed back on assertions that they’re looking to salvage healthcare for anyone but the American people.
«There was a frank and direct discussion with the President of the United States and Republican leaders. But significant and meaningful differences remain,» Jeffries said. «Democrats are fighting to protect the health care of the American people, and we are not going to support a partisan Republican spending bill that continues to gut the health care of every day America, period.»
Congress has until midnight Oct. 1 to pass a short-term funding extension, or continuing resolution (CR), to avert a partial government shutdown. The House already passed a funding extension, but the bill was blocked in the Senate earlier this month.
Republicans and the White House want to move forward with their «clean,» short-term funding extension until Nov. 21, while Democrats have offered a counter-proposal that includes a permanent extension of expiring Obamacare tax credits and other wishlist items that are a bridge too far for the GOP.
Vance appeared alongside Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russ Vought in a show of Republican unity after the meeting, but made clear both sides are still far apart.
Thune, holding up a copy of the funding extension, panned Jeffries and Schumer’s accusation that the bill was partisan in nature.
Congressional Republicans argue that the House GOP’s is everything that Democrats pushed when they controlled the Senate: a «clean,» short-term extension to Nov. 21 without partisan policy riders or spending, save for millions in new spending for increased security for lawmakers.
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., left, hold a news conference on the GOP reconciliation bill, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, June 11, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, file)
«To me, this is purely a hostage-taking exercise on the part of the Democrats,» Thune said. «We are willing to sit down and work with them on some of the issues they want to talk about, whether it’s an extension of premium tax credits, with reforms, we’re happy to have that conversation. But as of right now, this is a hijacking.»
Neither Schumer nor Jeffries took questions after their remarks, but appeared slightly more optimistic than their GOP counterparts after the meeting concluded.
«I think for the first time, the president heard our objections and heard why we needed a bipartisan bill,» Schumer said. «Their bill has not one iota of Democratic input. That is never how we’ve done this before.»
Vance said he was «highly skeptical» that it was Trump’s first time hearing the issue and said there was a bipartisan path forward on healthcare – but panned Democrats’ push to include an extension of COVID-19 pandemic-era Affordable Care Act (ACA) extensions in the bill.
«We want to work across the aisle to make sure that people have access to good healthcare,» he said, but added, «We are not going to let Democrats shut down the government and take a hostage unless we give them everything that they want. That’s not how the people’s government has ever worked.»
The meeting in the Oval Office comes after Trump canceled a previously scheduled confab last week with just Schumer and Jeffries. At the time, the president railed against their demands on his social media platform Truth Social and contended that congressional Democrats were pushing «radical Left policies that nobody voted for» in their counter-CR.
President Donald Trump speaks at a hearing of the Religious Liberty Commission at the Museum of the Bible, Monday, Sept. 8, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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Democrats’ demands center on an extension to expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies, though their counter-proposal also included language to repeal the healthcare section of the GOP’s «big, beautiful bill» and a clawback of canceled NPR and PBS funding.
Senate Republicans have argued that Democrats’ desires are unserious, and Thune has publicly said that Republicans would be willing to have discussions on the ACA subsidies, which are set to sunset at the end of this year, after the government is funded.
Schumer insisted Democrats needed it addressed immediately, however, in a press conference back on Capitol Hill after the meeting.
«We think when they say later, they mean never. We have to do it now, first because of the timing issue and second, because now is the time we can get it done,» he said.
The White House is also leveraging the threat of mass firings should the government shut down that go beyond the standard furloughing of nonessential employees. Still, Schumer and Senate Democrats have not buckled.
The Senate is expected to vote again on the bill on Tuesday.
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La reunión entre Trump y los líderes demócratas terminó sin acuerdo para evitar el cierre del Gobierno
La reunión entre los líderes demócratas del Congreso y el presidente estadounidense, Donald Trump finalizó este lunes sin que se alcanzara un entendimiento para tratar de evitar el cierre del Gobierno federal que se activaría a partir de este miércoles.
“Tenemos grandes diferencias en materia de salud y en su capacidad para revertir cualquier presupuesto que acordemos mediante rescisiones y embargos”, declaró a la prensa el líder de la minoría demócrata en el Senado, Chuck Schumer, al salir de la Oficina Oval de la Casa Blanca tras su reunión con el mandatario.
De acuerdo con los demócratas que asistieron a la reunión, se hizo ver a Trump “las consecuencias de lo que sucede en la atención médica al buscar recortes de seguros de salud”.
“Por su rostro, parecía que era la primera vez que escuchaba sobre este problema”, dijo Schumer a la prensa sobre la reacción del presidente durante el encuentro, en el que también estuvo el líder de la minoría demócrata en la Cámara de Representantes, Hakeem Jeffries, así como los líderes republicanos en la Cámara Alta y Baja, John Thune y Mike Johnson.
Por su parte, el vicepresidente estadounidense, J.D. Vance, dijo a medios al salir de la reunión: “Creo que nos encaminamos hacia un cierre porque los demócratas no harán lo correcto”.
En menos de dos días las expira el plazo para lograr un acuerdo de financiamiento para el Gobierno, y ambas partes insisten en señalar al opositor como responsable por no ceder.
Los demócratas exigen que se prorroguen los subsidios de la ley para el cuidado asequible de la salud (Obamacare) que expiran a final de año, así como la reversión de los recortes al programa Medicaid que resultaron de la gran ley de recortes presupuestarios y fiscales aprobada en julio pasado.
Sin embargo, los republicanos en el Congreso han dicho que aceptarán negociar ambos apartados solo si los demócratas dan su apoyo a un presupuesto provisional en una votación que tendría lugar mañana en el Senado y que mantendría el Gobierno operativo hasta noviembre.
Los republicanos presentaron el pasado 19 de septiembre ese presupuesto provisional en el Senado para su ratificación, pero este resultó rechazado porque su mayoría en la Cámara es insuficiente y requiere de al menos siete votos demócratas para la aprobación del proyecto de ley.
Al riesgo de una paralización del Gobierno federal se añade la posibilidad de despidos masivos de funcionarios públicos, según un memorando de la Oficina de Gestión y Presupuesto, que ha ordenado a las agencias que identifiquen programas clasificados como no esenciales para continuar su misión y reducir el personal federal.
Si el Congreso no toma medidas, miles de trabajadores del Gobierno federal podrían ser suspendidos, desde la NASA hasta los parques nacionales, y una amplia gama de servicios se verían interrumpidos.
Los tribunales federales podrían tener que cerrar y las subvenciones a las pequeñas empresas podrían retrasarse.
Los enfrentamientos presupuestarios se han convertido en algo relativamente rutinario en Washington en los últimos 15 años y a menudo se resuelven en el último minuto. Sin embargo, la voluntad de Trump de anular o ignorar las leyes de gasto aprobadas por el Congreso ha inyectado una nueva dimensión de incertidumbre.
Los demócratas han presentado un plan que prorrogaría la financiación actual entre siete y diez días, según fuentes del partido, lo que podría dar tiempo a alcanzar un acuerdo más duradero. Se trata de un plazo más corto que el respaldado por los republicanos, que ampliaría la financiación hasta el 21 de noviembre.
El líder republicano en el Senado, John Thune, trató de presionar a los demócratas programando una votación el martes sobre el proyecto republicano, que ya fracasó una vez en el Senado.
Ha habido 14 cierres parciales del Gobierno desde 1981, la mayoría de los cuales duraron solo unos días. El más reciente fue también el más largo, 35 días en 2018 y 2019 debido a una disputa sobre inmigración durante el primer mandato de Trump.
(Con información de EFE y Reuters)
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