No Proof Hamas Routinely Stole U.N. Aid, Israeli Military Officials Say

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4. The destruction of UNRWA based on unsubstantiated claims...

..no proof ever presented - was absolutely disgusting. I raged about it at the time and said it was going to help destroy Gaza and lead to starvation and eventual ethnic cleansing. There simply was no one even remotely close to having its infrastructure and experience.

I don't doubt either that Hamas diverted aid. But as the NYT article says, it was limited to the smaller agencies, not the UN, which had staff on hand when the aid was distributed. It would have been a drop in the bucket.

To cynically use that drop in the bucket as a pretext in furtherance of goals amounting to war crimes is despicable. To ignore warnings of impending starvation for months also.

Also, let's not forget the criminal gangs with ties to Al-Queda - for heaven's sake -that were responsible for most of the looting. If Israel really cared about theft and diversion it would have gone after those gangs rather than turning a blind eye and actually providing them wirh support and funding.

Deception in aid of starving people makes me sick.