Amid mounting international pressure on Israel over humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, the Coordinator of Government
Activities in the Territories (COGAT) reported that nearly 6,000 aid trucks
have gone uncounted in United Nations reports since May.
“There are dramatic and severe gaps between the number of
aid trucks entering Gaza and the figures presented by the UN,” the agency said.
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 the UN. 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, GHF.
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