cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/33945303
Minnah Arshad
July 30 2025 2:40pmThe U.N. agency tasked with distributing aid in Gaza, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, or UNRWA, has maintained for months that it has received no specific evidence that Hamas or other armed groups were diverting its humanitarian aid in Gaza.
“These claims are used as a pretext to justify the aid distribution system supported by the Israeli authorities and the United States of America (so called GHF), which falls far from abiding to the humanitarian principles and international humanitarian law,” an UNRWA spokesperson told The Intercept in a statement.
Everyone who pays attention already knows that the New York Times does not emphasize any sort of journalistic integrity among their staff. It’s probably part of the reason why they continue to lose subscribers. Hopefully they go out of business in my lifetime.
The implication of Hamas stealing aid because they’re just awful people doesn’t track. There’s essentially no point to it. Trying to drum up sympathy with starving children? Sympathy for bombed children didn’t happen so this shouldn’t be any different. As usual, Israel is controlling the narrative by controlling the flow of journalists and independent orgs in and out of Gaza.
Surprisingly, when you drop not enough food basically at random on a whole population of starving people, they start “stealing” it from each other. And the ones who are best at violence tend to be the ones who wind up with it. Who knew.
(Not that I’m saying the NYT isn’t lying here. I haven’t even read the details really, but I’m sure they are making up some kind of bullshit. I’m just saying that, even if there is some kind of “theft” or hoarding of food going on, that is 100% what anyone with a brain would expect to happen from the way Israel is controlling humanitarian aid at this point.)
