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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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El presidente de Brasil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, denunció este martes lo que calificó como una “decisión irresponsable” por parte del gobierno de Donald Trump tras la revocación de la visa estadounidense de su ministro de Justicia, Ricardo Lewandowski. Según medios brasileños presentes en una reunión de gabinete celebrada en Brasilia, el mandatario expresó su solidaridad tanto con Lewandowski como con otros magistrados brasileños afectados por restricciones similares.
“Estas actitudes son inaceptables, no sólo contra el ministro Lewandowski, sino también contra magistrados del Tribunal Supremo o cualquier autoridad brasileña”, declaró Lula durante el encuentro transmitido en directo, en referencia también a otras restricciones impuestas anteriormente por Washington a miembros clave del poder judicial brasileño.
Hasta la noche del martes, el Departamento de Estado estadounidense no emitió ninguna respuesta oficial a las consultas realizadas sobre la revocación de la visa del ministro de Justicia ni de otras autoridades brasileñas. Según las informaciones difundidas, la decisión de Estados Unidos se produce en el marco de una serie de sanciones y restricciones que la administración de Donald Trump ha implementado en los últimos meses, principalmente en respuesta al proceso judicial por intento de golpe de Estado contra el ex presidente Jair Bolsonaro, quien gobernó el país entre 2019 y 2022.
Durante la reunión ministerial, Lula expresó públicamente su respaldo a Lewandowski y calificó la revocación como “una vergüenza para ellos, no para” el ministro. “Debería estar orgulloso de lo que ha hecho, que ha llevado a estos tipos a odiar tanto a Brasil”, agregó el mandatario. El jefe de Estado también hizo referencia a la última política estadounidense de incremento de aranceles, asegurando que Brasil no admitirá “insultos de nadie” y exhortó a sus ministros a defender la soberanía nacional de manera firme.
“Estamos dispuestos a sentarnos a la mesa en igualdad de condiciones. Lo que no estamos dispuestos es a que nos traten como si fuéramos subordinados. No aceptaremos eso de nadie. Es importante saber que nuestro compromiso es con el pueblo brasileño”, enfatizó Lula.
En las últimas semanas, Washington retiró la visa y sancionó también al juez del Supremo, Alexandre de Moraes, quien está a cargo del proceso judicial por el intento de golpe contra Bolsonaro. Estas medidas incluyeron la aplicación de la denominada ley Magnitsky, que supone el bloqueo de activos en territorio estadounidense y la prohibición a ciudadanos o empresas de ese país de mantener relaciones comerciales con los funcionarios sancionados. Sin embargo, fuentes judiciales brasileñas aseguraron que Moraes no posee bienes en Estados Unidos.
El contexto de las sanciones estadounidenses incluye presiones ejercidas por figuras de la oposición brasileña radicadas en Estados Unidos, como Paulo Figueiredo y Eduardo Bolsonaro, hijo del ex presidente. Según destaca la información, ambos lideran esfuerzos de lobby ante el ejecutivo estadounidense para lograr acciones más contundentes contra las autoridades judiciales de Brasil. Lula denunció estos hechos: “Es probablemente una de las peores traiciones que ha sufrido la patria”, afirmó durante la misma reunión, y apuntó directamente contra quienes, según sus palabras, “infunden mentiras e hipocresía en otro estado contra Brasil”.
Además de la cancelación de visas, la administración Trump impuso recientemente aranceles punitivos de hasta el 50% a variados productos brasileños, argumentando la existencia de una “caza de brujas” contra el ex presidente Bolsonaro y sus aliados. Bolsonaro se encuentra actualmente bajo prisión domiciliaria preventiva, acusado de conspiración y obstrucción de la justicia en el caso relacionado con el fallido intento de golpe de Estado en 2022. El Supremo Tribunal Federal de Brasil tiene previsto anunciar su veredicto definitivo sobre Bolsonaro a partir del próximo 2 de septiembre.
La escalada de tensiones se da en un contexto de fuerte polarización política, donde el bolsonarismo mantiene apoyo de sectores de la comunidad brasileña en Estados Unidos. En el transcurso de la última semana, la Policía Federal brasileña recomendó la imputación de Jair Bolsonaro y su hijo Eduardo por supuesta obstrucción del proceso penal.
Durante la reunión referida, Lula y algunos de sus ministros lucieron gorras azules con el lema “Brasil es de los brasileños”, en lo que pareció ser un gesto simbólico de reafirmación nacionalista ante las presiones externas.
El retiro de los visados y la imposición de sanciones han puesto de manifiesto la compleja relación bilateral bajo la administración Trump, así como la defensa de la soberanía y la independencia judicial por parte del gobierno de Lula da Silva.
(Con información de AFP, EP y Reuters)
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Trump ignites conservative backlash after opening door to 600,000 Chinese students: ‘What is this madness?’
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President Donald Trump’s plan to allow 600,000 Chinese student visas to be issued sparked backlash from the right on Monday and Tuesday.
«I hear so many stories that we’re not going to allow their students,» Trump told reporters as trade talks with China are ongoing.
«We’re going to allow their students to come in. It’s very important, 600,000 students. It’s very important. But we’re going to get along with China,» he continued.
Trump expanded on his comments during a Cabinet meeting at the White House on Tuesday.
«I think it’s very insulting to say students can’t come here because they’ll go out and start building schools and they’ll be able to survive it. But I like that their students come here. I like that other countries’ students come here. And you know what would happen if they didn’t? Our college system would go to hell very quickly. And it wouldn’t be the top colleges, so it’d be colleges that struggle on the bottom. And you take out 300,000 or 600,000 students out of the system,» Trump said.
«I like having, and I told this to President Xi that we’re honored to have their students here. Now, with that, we check in with careful and we see who’s there,» he added.
TRUMP OPENS DOOR TO 600,000 CHINESE STUDENTS AMID BEIJING TRADE TALKS
Donald Trump says 600,000 Chinese students could be allowed into the U.S. to study at its colleges pending a potential trade agreement with China. (Fox News)
Some immigration groups and conservative voices on social media voiced their opposition to the proposal.
«We should not let in 600,000 CHINESE students to attend American colleges and universities that may be loyal to the CCP,» Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., posted on X late Monday night. «If refusing to allow these Chinese students to attend our schools causes 15% of them to fail then these schools should fail anyways because they are being propped up by the CCP.»
«Granting 600,000 student visas to Chinese nationals threatens to put foreign students ahead of U.S. graduates,» Joe Chatham, director of government relations at the Federation for American Immigration Reform, told Fox News Digital in a statement.
«The focus now must be on reforms to limit access to sectors crucial to our economy and national security that have repeatedly been the target of corporate espionage and intellectual property theft—not expanding access to hostile countries. Educating foreign nationals should never be put before the interests of U.S. citizens and ensuring that our nation thrives,» he continued.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick delved further into the Trump administration’s view on the matter when pressed on «The Ingraham Angle.»
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Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick in the Oval Office of the White House on Aug. 6, 2025. (Bonnie Cash/UPI/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
«The president’s point of view is that what would happen if you didn’t have those 600K students is that you’d empty them from the top, all the students would go up to better schools, and the bottom 15% of universities and colleges would go out of business in America.»
«He’s taking a rational economic view, which is classic Donald Trump,» Lutnick added.
Many suggested that the free market should come into play with these colleges that could be at a potential financial risk.
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«Let them go under, then! What is this madness? NO. WE DON’T WANT MORE CHINESE STUDENTS. We actually don’t want any,» conservative commentator Kira Davis wrote.
«15% going under isn’t a bad thing,» writer Ryan Girdusky posted to X.
«Trump’s team is not capable of defending his Chinese student visa program,» conservative lawyer Marina Medvin posted on X. «That’s because they don’t actually want it either. It’s hard to sell something you don’t like.»
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Banners on the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on May 27, 2025. (Sophie Park/Bloomberg)
«So this is essentially a subsidy for academia. Got it. American universities shouldn’t need an influx of foreign students in order to stay afloat. If they can’t survive on American enrollment, then let them go under. Plus, Chinese students steal our research and send it home,» Josh Peterson, a full stack developer and investigative journalist, posted.
Conservative commentator Liz Wheeler unleashed on the Trump White House, saying these Chinese students should be banned.
«Chinese ‘students’ are all spies for the Chinese Communist Party. They’re forced to be. They steal our intellectual property. They steal our tech. They steal our intel. They cozy up to our military,» Wheeler posted on X. «Trump should ban all Chinese students from U.S. universities. Deport them all.»
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«This is the dumbest explanation I’ve heard. By all means, put colleges & universities out of business!» Wheeler said in response to Lutnick’s defense of Trump’s policy. «Their business is indoctrinating students into hardened revolutionary Marxists. If you want to save America, you’ll have to raze the university system. Perfect chance to start.»
Others agreed with Lutnick’s perspective on the issue, saying that it could actually help the United States bring in more talent domestically.
«This is not as horrible as people are making it out to be. Chinese students on U.S. visas aren’t average kids. They represent the top tier of China’s youth,» podcast host Joshua Reid posted to X.
«On the other side, we are hosting China’s future leaders, scientists, and innovators. Which also means that American culture returns home with them. When you start to think about emergent tech, this is actually a great idea. Bring the top level students over the US. This is talent that is pulled away from China and now becomes a national asset,» Reid added.
Fox News Digital’s Emma Bussey contributed to this report.
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A United Nations-backed report declaring famine in areas of Gaza has sparked a war of words over the conditions in the enclave.
The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) released a report on Friday in which it declared for the first time that the Gaza Governorate is experiencing a famine. Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis are meanwhile in severe crisis. Conditions in Northern Gaza are estimated to be as severe as those in the Gaza Governorate or worse. The IPC report does not touch on conditions in Rafah, as it is largely considered to be depopulated.
The IPC, a U.N.-backed initiative involving U.N. agencies, NGOs and technical experts, has been widely considered to be the global standard for classifying food crises.
Israel has fiercely pushed back against the report’s findings, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office saying it was «an outright lie.» While Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Oren Marmorstein claimed the report was «tailor-made» based on «Hamas lies laundered through organizations with vested interests» and denied that a famine exists in Gaza.
DEIR AL BALAH, GAZA – AUGUST 10: Palestinians wait with pots in their hands as a charitable organization distributes food.
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«Israel does not have a policy of starvation. Israel has a policy of preventing starvation,» the prime minister’s office wrote in a thread on X that included Israeli data on the situation in Gaza.
Marmorstein also claimed that IPC «twisted its own rules and ignored its own criteria just to produce false accusations against Israel.»
In its Aug. 22 report, the IPC projected that by the end of September the famine will expand to Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis, leaving 641,000 people in famine conditions. The report predicts that the number of people in IPC Phase 4 (emergency) conditions will rise to 1.14 million while 198,000 will be in crisis.
In its recommendations, the IPC calls for an immediate ceasefire, a guarantee of unconditional and safe humanitarian access, protection of civilian infrastructure and large-scale humanitarian assistance.
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After the report was released, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres condemned the Jewish state on X.
«This is not a mystery — it is a man-made disaster, a moral indictment and a failure of humanity itself. Famine is not only about food; it is the deliberate collapse of the systems needed for human survival,» Guterres wrote on X. «As the occupying power, Israel has unequivocal obligations under international law — including the duty of ensuring food and medical supplies of the population. We cannot allow this situation to continue with impunity.»
Guterres ended his message with calls for a ceasefire, unfettered humanitarian access and the return of the hostages.
Smoke rises to the sky following an Israeli airstrike in the northern Gaza Strip as seen from southern Israel, Aug. 25, 2025. (Leo Correa/AP Photo)
UNICEF OFFICIAL SAYS GAZA MALNUTRITION REACHES ‘FAMINE LEVELS’ AS HUMANITARIAN AID TRICKLES IN
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), UNICEF, the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) and the World Health Organization (WHO), all of which participate in the IPC, reiterated their call for an immediate humanitarian response and ceasefire.
Israel’s Coordination for Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), slammed the IPC for relying on Hamas-run entities, UNRWA assessments and «unverifiable sources,» while ignoring the data from Jerusalem.
A Palestinian carries a box of food from the World Food Program as others carry sacks of flour unloaded from a humanitarian aid convoy that reached Gaza City from the northern Gaza Strip, Aug. 24, 2025. (Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo)
AS ISRAEL FACES BLAME FOR THE HUNGER CRISIS IN GAZA, UN’S OWN DATA SHOWS MOST OF ITS AID IS LOOTED
Richard Goldberg, a senior advisor to the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) and a former White House and National Security Council official during both Trump administrations, took issue with the report’s findings, calling them politically motivated.
«The ideology of destroying Israel and saving Hamas is widespread within the U.N. and far-left NGOs, leading them to change their own guidelines for declaring a famine in Gaza while they ignore an actual famine in Sudan. The data doesn’t support a famine declaration in Gaza, but that doesn’t matter when the conclusion is politically pre-ordained,» Goldberg told Fox News Digital.
Palestinians run towards parachutes carrying aid packages, in Deir Al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip Aug. 18, 2025. (Ramadan Abed/Reuters)
Goldberg also noted the timing of the report, which came just days after Israel said it would enter Gaza City — which is in the Gaza Governorate — was «the most telling part of it all.»
U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee shared a statement from Netanyahu’s office and said that «tons of food has gone into Gaza but Hamas savages stole it, ate lots of it to become corpulent, sold it on the black market but they didn’t give it to the hostages.»
Hamas terrorists carrying clubs and firearms secure humanitarian aid trucks in the northern Gaza area of Jabaliya on June 25, 2025. (TPS-IL)
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Fifty hostages have been held in Gaza for nearly 700 days. Of those, 20 are believed to be alive while the rest are confirmed dead. Hamas is holding onto their remains. Earlier this month, the terror group released a video of hostage Evyatar David who appeared extremely thin and said he had not eaten in days.
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