COGAT accuses UN of 'massively undercounting' number of aid trucks entering Gaza, calls on world body 'step up'

The IDF’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) on Tuesday accused the UN of “severe reporting discrepancies” regarding humanitarian aid delivery to the Gaza Strip. 

COGAT accused the UN of using a limited amount of data to present its claims against Israel, saying the world body’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.” 

“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,” COGAT wrote. 

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.… pic.twitter.com/QSMWMv68wQ

— COGAT (@cogatonline) August 19, 2025

The government agency also posted a link to an aid tracking website run by COGAT, which shows the amount of total aid brought in to the Gaza Strip with Israeli cooperation. As of August 17, 2025, that tracker showed that over 1,957,000 tons of humanitarian aid had entered the Gaza Strip through various methods, with most coming through land crossings controlled by Israel. 

COGAT has frequently hit back at the UN in recent weeks after the world body accused Israel of restricting the number of trucks entering Gaza. COGAT responded by showing evidence that the UN and its affiliated aid organizations were not collecting humanitarian aid that had been inspected and brought into a collection point within the Gaza Strip. 

After inviting foreign journalists to visit the collection site, and document the almost 1,000 trucks worth of aid backlog, the UN began collecting more aid over the following weeks. 

The government agency called on the UN to “step up” and “bring in all the trucks they say they can.” 

The UN proves yet another week it can step up collection efforts.

But the UN isn’t the only actor. Other organizations and countries send in the majority of aid.

There’s no quantitative limit to the number of trucks. The UN just has to bring in all the trucks they say they… pic.twitter.com/UgNvLxiYqb

— COGAT (@cogatonline) August 17, 2025

While the COGAT website tracks all aid entering the Gaza Strip via Israeli collaboration, the UN’s own website tracks only the aid brought in through its organizations and its affiliates. COGAT took issue with the UN’s claims to offer a comprehensive picture of the aid situation in Gaza, while not tracking aid coming in from other sources. 

However, the UN’s own aid tracking website shows that many of the UN’s aid trucks are intercepted by armed actors within the enclave, with the majority, over 80%, being intercepted. Despite this, the UN has turned down offers by the IDF to help secure aid deliveries. 

Nothing to see here folks … nothing at all.

“The @UN has admitted that 88% of the aid trucks it brought into Gaza since mid-May were looted, or “diverted,” either by Hamas and other armed groups, or by mobs of Palestinian civilians.” pic.twitter.com/0I8wsFDEe3

— Rev. Johnnie Moore ن (@JohnnieM) August 5, 2025

At the beginning of August, COGAT also announced the resumption of a pilot program to allow Gaza merchants to import goods into the enclave, in an effort to reduce “reliance on aid collection by the U.N. and international organizations.” 

Israel has also increased efforts to ensure humanitarian aid reaches a greater number of people in recent weeks.