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A new study indicates that the United Nations and other aid groups have looked several times in the other direction that aid for civilians is stolen by terrorist groups and dictators, from Hamas to Gaza to the Taliban in Afghanistan.

Last month, researchers from Dr. Netta Barak-Corren from Jerusalem Hebrew University And Dr. Jonathan Boxman underlined the harmful impact of the diversion of aid in war areas, notably Somalia, Ethiopia, Syria, Yemen, Sudan and Afghanistan, before presenting the probable case of diversion in Gaza.

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Somalians in southern Somalia carrying their personal effects are heading for a new camp for people displaced internally in Mogadishu, Somalia. July 2011. (Associated Press)

Somalia (1995-present)

In Somalia, the researchers found the embezzlement “at each stage of the supply chain”, with almost half of the budget of the World Food Program (WFP) taken up by the payments of the transport of the cartel, “Ghost camps” siphoning of the aid, the members of the family of fighters registering for aid and the local “porters” taking the help.

In the end, the study assessed that only about 12.5% ​​to 17.5% of aid reached Somalians in need.

An internal report of July 2023 commissioned by the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres reported as “strictly confidential”, contained allegations of people displaced in Somali (PDI) who declared “that they were forced to pay up to half of the cash assistance that they received for power positions,” Faced with threats, these on or of the de-registrations of the beneficiary lists “.

Ethiopia (2020-2024)

In Ethiopia, the researchers found that WFP “looked in the other direction” the diversion, especially since the Ethiopian soldiers forced local factories to grind 30 metric tonnes of cereals looted in flour for their soldiers.

The American Agency for International Development (USAID) discovered the gap and finally suspended assistance with Ethiopia.

Reuters also found that WFP was aware of the Ethiopia Aid Diversion “for several years”. In response to the concerns expressed in 2024, Cindy McCain, director of WFP, publicly said that WFP had a “zero tolerance for theft or diversion”.

In this undated photo published by the official Syrian official news agency Sana, a vehicle of a United Nations observer passes under a huge Syrian flag held by Syrian President Bashar Assad, during their visit to the districts of the Pro-Syrian regime, in the province of Homs, in the center of Syria. (AP)

Syrian civil war (2011-2024)

During the Syrian civil war, the report indicates that the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad “dictated the terms of humanitarian aid”. This included a siphon of 51% of the aid through the exchange of currencies and to determine that the areas controlled by the rebels were too dangerous for the distribution of the aid.

David Adesnik, vice-president of research for the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, told Fox News Digital that Assad funding had created “a war of annihilation”. It was “not only that you lose help or waste it, but that you actively aggravate the conflict and cause more violence,” he said.

Yemeni Civil War (2014-Print)

While the UN reported the disappearance of around 1% of the aid, the authors’ relationship estimated that around 60% of the beneficiaries have not received aid, which was given to the Loyalists Houthi or sold on the market by bad players.

Sudan Civil War (2023-Print)

In Sudan, war factions tried to deny aid to adversaries. When PAM’s help was pillaged, the researchers said that the organization had not identified the pillard, “afraid of being expelled from Sudan”.

South-Sudanese shelter in a public transport center in Renk, South Sudan in May 2023. A migration surveillance group said that conflicts and natural disasters led nearly 76 million people to be moved within their country in 2023, a new record, with violence in Sudan, Congo and the Middle East, leading two thirds of the new movement. (Sam Mednick / Fileap Photo)

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The researchers report that two main officials of the WFP have been faced with an investigation “on allegations including fraud and concealment of information to donors” in Sudan.

In August 2024, the WFP told Reuters that his Inspector General’s office examined “the allegations of individual misconduct linked to irregularities in the pockets of our operation in Sudan”.

Afghanistan (2001-2021)

During the Afghanistan War 2001-2021, Barak-Corren and Boxman found that around 40% of the aid was diverted by the Taliban taxing humanitarian organizations, demanding medical care for combatants and placing members on the payroll of humanitarian organizations.

The study revealed that international supervisors who discovered activities “avoid (ED) which are donors.

Taliban fighters pose for a photo next to a United Nations vehicle that they looted in Kunduz, Afghanistan, September 2015. (AP)

Foundation for Defense of Democracies Senior Fellow and editor -in -chief of the long War Journal Bill Roggio said that he “suspected (diversion figures) even more.

Gaza (1949-present)

While the United Nations Rescue and Work Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) denied the embezzlement of Aid to Gaza, Barak-Corren and Boxman notes that the diversion was reported by PAM and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. According to the authors, UNRWA “should be considered as a rationalized aid embezzlement benefiting from a unique level of international immunity and freedom of responsibility”.

While Israel is faced with the blame for the hunger crisis in Gaza, UN’s own data show that most of its aid is looted

Hamas terrorists carrying clubs and firearms secure humanitarian aid trucks in northern Gaza in Jabaliya in June. 25 (Tps il)

The United Nations Office for Humanitarian Affairs Coordination (OCHA) has refused to answer questions about diversion in other conflict zones or if help providers are encouraged to hide the diversion of donors.

A spokesperson for Unicha said that in Gaza, “we have no evidence of a diversion of systematic UN aid in Hamas. The UN and our partners have strict surveillance in place, with deliveries monitoring when they are able to do so.”

The help trucks of the United Nations Rescue and Work Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Middle East (UNRWA) provide aid near Gaza City. (Dawoud Abo Alkas / Anadolu via Getty Images)

The UN and humanitarian groups “have a range of measures in place … to mitigate the risk of aid diversion and provide effective monitoring,” said the spokesperson.

Barak-Corren told Fox News Digital that “Unicha’s response demonstrates the exact phenomenon we have pointed out in our research, namely that the UN prefers to avoid and delete the question of the diversion of aid as a general problem rather than facing it.”

The UN’s own figures show that an estimated 88% of the aid has not reached its destination scheduled between May 19 and August 12.

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An Israeli military official told Fox News Digital that their problem lies in Hamas “control the aid, sell it, withdraw money, pay wages and include (recruit) other young people to fight against us”.

The manager explained that the UN “does not pay for this. The world pays it, and that he is not responsible enough to avoid the hands of Hamas”. In this way, the manager said: “They help Hamas and help to lie down this war.”

Reuters contributed to this report.