An analysis compiled by USAID officials who examined more than 150 informed incidents that involve the theft or loss of humanitarian aid financed by the United States in the Gaza Strip devastated by the war, says that he could not find any evidence that Hamas, the militant rulers of the Palestinian Cars, involved in a large amount of assistance, according to a presentation reviewed by ABC News.
The results of the report seem to undermine the repeated statements of the Trump administration that Hamas has regularly interfered with the distribution of aid in the past, statements that it has used to justify its support for the controversial Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) and by the measures made by Israel to limit the flow of assistance to the neighboring Gaza through other roads.
The GHF, with the approval of Israel and despite the rejection of the United Nations, took over most of the Gaza Aid distribution system on May 27, after an 11 -week Israeli blockade in all supplies of entering the strip. Israel has long accused Hamas of theft help provided by the UN, previously the main distributor, and others to finance his militant activity, statements that Hamas denies.
Israel has allowed a limited amount of supplies to Gaza since he lifted the blockade and, according to an Israeli security official, is “coordinating future aid airplanes” by foreign countries “that is expected to take place in the coming days.” This occurs after a coalition of more than 100 organizations warned this week that “mass starvation” is extending in Gaza with “supplies now totally exhausted.”
USAID officials behind the presentation say they analyzed alleged incidents of fraud, abuse and waste reported between October 2023, when the Israel-Ahamas war began in progress, and last May. He was compiled before the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), once the world’s largest donor in the world, officially ceased independent operations on July 1. The Trump administration canceled more than 80% of the agency’s programs, while the rest of the United States State Department absorbed the rest.
USAID officials say their findings indicate that in most cases involving the loss of help, the author could not be definitely identified.
Somoud Wahdan looks at the camera as he sits with his son in an area in northern Gaza Strip, while waiting for trucks to arrive with humanitarian aid, in the city of Gaza, on Friday, July 25, 2025.
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Israel’s defense forces denied the report in a statement to ABC News, saying that “the report not only ignores the clear and explicit evidence that Hamas exploits humanitarian aid to maintain their fighting capabilities, but will criticize the IDF for routing decisions taken specifically to protect humanitarian personnel and shipments.”
The IDF added that when “directs aid deliveries along specific routes, it is based on operational and intelligence reality evaluations, aimed at safeguarding both the aid and the humanitarian actors, precisely the problem that the report affirms is not addressed.”
The State Department is also strongly going back to the analysis, which Reuters first reported, as well as the coverage of the media related to the matter.
A state department spokesman described him as “surprising” that “the media are occupied by debating whether the intellectual authors of October 7 are somehow too main for the loot.”
“There is an endless video evidence of Hamas’ looting, not to mention the members of the help industrial complex that have admitted that looting exists when informing it as’ autodistribution ‘, in a bad attempt of a cover -up of corruption of help,” said the spokesman. “The available intelligence confirms what is reflected in open source information: that a significant portion of help trucks that are not GHF have diverted, looted, stolen or ‘autodistributed’.”
Despite this, the Trump administration, a firm ally from Israel, has not provided evidence that Hamas performs a generalized deviation of help to date.
The IDF said it is “making huge efforts to allow the safe distribution of humanitarian aid in complex operational conditions.”
Gaza’s War ongoing exploded after Hamas led a surprise terrorist attack against southern Israel on October 7, 2023, killing 1,200 people there and taking another 251 hostages, according to figures from the Israeli government. Since then, Israeli forces have killed more than 59,000 people in Gaza, according to the data published by the Ministry of Health of the Strip.
