The UN is feeding Hamas - not Gaza

As the United Nations urges a surge in humanitarian aid to Gaza, its top officials are once again missing the point. The issue is not the number of trucks waiting at the border — it’s who controls what happens once those trucks roll in.

Tom Fletcher, the UN’s Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, is calling for thousands of vehicles per week to enter Gaza, claiming over 190,000 metric tons of life-saving provisions are stuck at the border. But Fletcher fails to acknowledge a hard, dangerous truth: Hamas is back — and it’s in control.

While the international community talks about aid, Hamas is reasserting power in the streets. The Islamist militia has resumed its reign of terror in Gaza, executing alleged collaborators and tightening its grip over civilians. 

According to reports, more than 30 individuals were killed in Gaza City by Hamas operatives under the pretext of restoring order.

This is not a humanitarian vacuum — it is a security vacuum filled by violent extremists. Every truck of aid risks becoming a resource for a group that has shown time and again that it weaponizes suffering for political leverage. Aid without oversight is not relief — it’s fuel for Hamas.

Yet, UN officials like Fletcher continue issuing tone-deaf statements, fixated on logistics while ignoring the fundamental problem: a terrorist regime that steals aid, kills its own people, and rejects disarmament.

U.S. officials, at least, appear more grounded. Commander Brad Cooper of U.S. CENTCOM directly called on Hamas to disarm without delay and to stop targeting civilians in Gaza. 

The Trump-backed peace plan envisions a demilitarized Gaza, governed not by Hamas but by a Palestinian committee under international supervision — supported by a U.S.-led stabilization mission.

So far, Hamas has shown no willingness to comply. On the contrary, it’s digging in.

Trump’s roadmap may be controversial, but it reflects the reality that any peace effort — any rebuilding, any meaningful delivery of aid — requires Hamas to be removed from power. That’s the conversation the UN needs to be having, but continues to avoid.

Tom Fletcher and his UN colleagues should stop pretending that more trucks will solve a crisis rooted in violence, corruption, and fear. 

Until Hamas is sidelined and real governance is restored, humanitarian aid will remain a bandage on a bullet wound — and the people of Gaza will continue to suffer under a regime that claims to protect them while treating them like hostages.

It’s time for clarity. It’s time for courage. And above all, it’s time for the UN to wake up.