The UN only counts about 25% of the actual food coming into Gaza ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Wednesday, August 20, 2025

The UN only counts about 25% of the actual food coming into Gaza

The IDF's COGAT unit wrote in its newsletter:

Since May, according to UN data, only 3,553 trucks entered the Gaza Strip. In reality, Israel facilitated the entry of nearly 9,200 trucks. This represents a gap of almost 6,000 trucks - 2.5 times the volume of aid that the UN claims actually entered. The fact that the UN presents only part of the aid actually transferred misleads the international community and creates a false picture of the situation, directly influencing global media coverage and shaping the positions of international decision-makers regarding the humanitarian situation in Gaza.

The UN publishes its figures through a public dashboard that purports to present a full picture of all humanitarian aid, but in practice it includes only the trucks facilitated by UN agencies and a small number of aid organizations working with them. The dashboard fails to include aid delivered by other actors in the humanitarian system, including various states, additional international organizations, the private sector, airdrops, and the distribution centers of the American company.

The truth is even worse than COGAT says.

Since August 1, according to the UN, 14,778 tons of food entered Gaza. (Total aid was 21,500 tons, but nearly all of the rest were vehicles.)

In that same timeframe, COGAT counts 61,100 tons of food aid.

That means that the UN is only counting 24% of the actual food aid entering Gaza for this month.

For July, the UN counted 19,704 tons. COGAT counted 53,671 tons - 2.4 times the UN figures.

Keep in mind that this is aid entering Gaza, not aid delivered. So far in August the UN only counts 1,609 tons that was not intercepted on its way to the people - only 11% of the aid that entered Gaza counted by the UN. COGAT does not count the food that makes it to the people, but we can assume the vast majority of the difference in aid entering Gaza is through the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, from which very little food if any is intercepted (some might be stolen by Hamas as people leave the distribution sites.)

We can conservatively estimate that 40,000 tons of the GHF food made it to the people in August so far, which means that Israel via GHF is providing 25 times the amount of food to hungry Gazans that the UN and its partners are directly providing. (Of course, most of the food stolen en route does end up in the mouths of Gazans - after they pay Hamas for the privilege of eating food meant as free aid.)

The problem is not, and never has been the amount of aid into Gaza. The problem has always been distribution and security of the transport. The UN blames Israel for that - but when Israel comes up with a better system, however flawed it might or might not be (I do not believe for a minute the Hamas figures of over a thousand killed by the IDF at GHF sites), the UN is more interested in dismantling the system that works in favor of the system that it uses where the vast majority of the food goes to Hamas and other armed gangs.

The websites are public. Anyone can check my figures. Including the media.

But the media is more interested in promoting Hamas lies, UN misinformation and anti-Israel propaganda than the truth. And this propaganda directly feeds antisemitism which endangers Jews worldwide - but who cares about them?