Unicef has confirmed it in black and white: armed men in Gaza hijacked aid trucks at gunpoint, stealing ready-to-use therapeutic food meant for thousands of severely malnourished infants. According to the UN, at least 2,700 children have been deprived of life-saving nutrition as a result. And yet, the world barely blinked.
Where is Keir Starmer’s public determination to punish the perpetrators? Where are the front pages brimming with rage? Where is the BBC’s solemn-voiced, tear-jerking report? Even Unicef, in its carefully worded statement, declined to name the perpetrators or describe where the stolen food was taken. The aid was ‘diverted’. The trucks were ‘commandeered’.
Contrast this silence with the tone adopted by the UK’s
permanent representative to the UN, Ambassador Barbara Woodward, in her July
address to the Security Council. ‘The Israeli aid system is inhumane,
ineffective, dangerous and fuelling instability,’ she said. She condemned the
IDF and praised the UN’s ‘brave efforts’ to deliver aid. Hamas, she said, was
‘is exploiting this disorder’. No explicit mention was made of aid theft or of
the terror group’s systemic exploitation of the aid economy for profit and
power.
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