Key UN Statements and Reports
UNOPS (UN Office for Project Services)
Between May 19 and August 5, 2025, UNOPS reported that nearly 90% of 2,604 UN aid trucks were looted before reaching their destinations—attributing the losses to both starving civilians and armed actors, without naming specific groups.New York Post
Aid Trucks Looted
Data from the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) showed that between May 19 and August 5, more than 2,600 trucks carrying humanitarian aid crossed from Israel into Gaza. However, only 300 of these trucks reached their intended destinations in Gaza during that period, with some 2,309 trucks being “intercepted” and looted along their delivery routes — undermining the recent claim of Tom Fletcher, the UN under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, that “the vast majority of the aid gets to civilians.” UNOPS’s data did not distinguish between the parties responsible for the interceptions, noting only that the aid was stolen by either “armed actors” or “hungry people.”
New-York Post
Nearly 90% of aid trucks collected by the United Nations along Gaza’s border didn’t make it to their intended destination since mid-May due to looting from starving Palestinians or “forcefully armed actors,” officials said.
The UN Office for Project Services (UNOPS) found that of the 2,604 aid trucks that entered the war-torn enclave from May 19 to Aug. 5, only 295 vehicles, or 12%, were spared from theft or mass looting, according to the agency’s Monitor & Tracking Dashboard.
Israel has repeatedly blamed Hamas for looting aid trucks, however, the UNOPS report did not name the groups that were taking the food.
Security Council Context
During a Security Council meeting in August 2025, Israel claimed that Hamas was stealing and reselling aid. However, the UN disputed those accusations, pointing instead to a broader law-and-order collapse and humanitarian failures as the root causes of the looting crisis.AP News