Israel has no evidence that Hamas regularly steals aid from the United Nations, despite using it as the main justification for establishing the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, The New York Times reports, citing two senior Israeli military officials and two other Israelis involved in the matter.
The sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, say that the UN system for distributing aid was the most reliable and effective method of distributing aid, while Hamas would steal from smaller organizations that contributed aid.
A Hamas representative did not immediately respond to requests for comment, and neither did the Prime Minister’s Office.
The military tells the Times in a statement that Hamas’s looting of aid is “well documented” and “exploited humanitarian aid to fund terrorist activities,” however, it did not deny the report that there was no evidence to suggest regular looting of UN assistance.
The report comes a day after a USAID analysis came to the conclusion that US-funded supplies were not being systematically looted.
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