UNRWA's dashboard of trucks entering Gaza says that 1296 trucks entered Gaza in June, and 674 in July so far.
But there is some fine print:
Current Data (after Rafah operation): This page of the supply and tracking dashboard currently records trucks entering Gaza via Rafah and Kerem Shalom which are being handled and retrieved by UNRWA, and records of trucks via Western Erez are based on those received at the UNRWA Warehouse. Dashboard data includes partial cargo from INGOs, Red Cross and other UN agencies, and excludes Commercial actors. We are unable to provide comprehensive monitoring of cargo for the following reasons: i) safety and security concerns, which continue to prevent UN staff from maintaining constant presence at Kerem Shalom, therefore severely impacting our ability to record data from INGO, Red Cross and commercial trucks, and delays and/or denials in approvals for UN to retrieve, count and move UN humanitarian aid from Kerem Shalom to other parts of the Gaza Strip, which mean that we are unable to fully verify all trucks which have transited the land crossings. We will resume presentation of comprehensive data once the situation at the crossing allows.
In other words, they admit that they are not counting all the trucks and give reasons for their inability to count.
If that is the case, why are they showing such specific numbers of trucks entering?
Luckily, the IDF COGAT unit has finally created its own interactive dashboard counting every truck going into Gaza.
COGAT counts nearly four times as many trucks for June as UNRWA does, and over six times as many for July so far.
This isn't a difference of 10%. This is an order of magnitude difference between what UNRWA reports and reality. And UNRWA's accuracy is getting worse, not better, over time.
So one must ask again: why does UNRWA even publish these completely irrelevant numbers on their website that bear zero relationship with reality?
To make Israel look bad, of course. If Gaza needs hundreds of trucks a day, and it only gets a fraction of that, then UNRWA can accuse Israel of deliberately starving Gaza.
I'm sure it's unintentional. Sure.
