Over the past few months, I and others have been using UNOPS data to show how
most aid going into Gaza - and essentially
all the food aid from the World Food Programme - have been stolen before reaching their intended destinations.
As the data mounted, while the
WFP kept asking for more money without admitting that none of the food actually makes it to hungry Gazans without going through Hamas or other militants, something had to break.
And of course, it isn't the NGOs that have been providing the food to Hamas to resell.
No, instead, the UN rewrote its mechanism to report on aid delivery so that the stolen aid is no longer reported.
The previous reports were on the
UN2720 "App" site. That site was updated daily. But it has not been updated since at least October 1.
Instead, it has been replaced with another dashboard, that emphasizes aid that Israel is rejecting - even though that is far less than the aid that is being stolen.
One has to read it carefully to see that Israel has approved over 82% of the requests for aid of all kinds throughout the war, which again contradicts the UN narrative that Israel is heavily restricting aid arbitrarily. (I'm not counting the aid still under review.)
Now, why would the UN change its dashboard from reporting the huge majority of aid that was stolen by Gazan militants and to emphasize the minority of aid rejected by Israel?
Apparently, the truth wasn't as aligned with the UN narrative as they wanted it to be.