COGAT: UN Undercounts Thousands of Aid Trucks
COGAT issued a statement today saying that its investigation and data show that the UN has been consistently undercounting the amount of aid trucks entering the Strip by a factor of 2.5.
COGAT released the following statement today (Tuesday) stating that the United Nations public reports have systematically undercounted the number of aid trucks entering the Gaza Strip and being provided to the populace by a factor of 2.5.
"Severe reporting discrepancies: Nearly 6,000 aid trucks omitted from UN Reports since May. UN data on the volume of aid, along with repeated statements and reports by senior members of the international community, are often presented as an indisputable absolute truth. However, the UN’s documentation and monitoring mechanisms are deficient and present a misleading, partial, and at times inaccurate picture of the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip."
"Since May, according to UN data: only 3,553 trucks entered Gaza.
"In reality, Israel facilitated the entry of nearly 9,200 trucks.
"This is a gap of almost 6,000 trucks!
"2.5 times the volume of aid that the UN claims actually entered. The UN publishes its figures through a public dashboard that claims to present a full picture of all humanitarian aid, but in practice it includes only the trucks facilitated by UN agencies and a small number of aid organizations working with them. The dashboard fails to include aid delivered by other actors in the humanitarian system, including various states, additional international organizations, the private sector, airdrops, and the distribution centers of the American company [reference to the Gaza Humanitarian Fund - A.W.]."
According to the UN's own figures, close to 90% of its trucks have been looted or hijacked by terrorists or armed groups from May to July.