Headlines such as Hamas hijacks aid truck in US military footage, Hamas attacks aid driver, leaves body on the road while they loot his supplies, and TERRORISTS’ NERVE: Shock military drone vid shows Hamas brutes loot US aid truck, are circulating in the mainstream media. They give the impression that Hamas killed the driver of an aid truck while stealing the contents destined for Palestinians in Gaza.
Hamas blamed for ‘attack’ but no sign of the ‘victim’
The allegations stem from a video and a statement posted on X on 31 October by US Central Command (CENTCOM).
video-its on CENTROM’s X
CENTCOM claimed that drone footage had alerted the US-led Civil-Military Coordination Centre (CMCC) to:
Suspected Hamas operatives looting an aid truck travelling as part of a humanitarian convoy delivering needed assistance from international partners to Gazans in northern Khan Younis… Operatives attacked the driver and stole the aid and truck, after moving the driver to the road’s median.
Strangely, the statement claims “The driver’s current status is unknown”. There have also been no reported complaints or reports filed by any international or local institutions, nor by any driver working with the aid convoys, since the alleged incident. It appears as though the incident was staged by the US and the Israeli occupation.
According to the US military’s CENTCOM, its MQ-9 drone which captured the video footage was supposedly flying overhead at the time of the “attack”, monitoring implementation of the ceasefire.
Hamas: incident was ‘fabricated and politically motivated’
Hamas, in a statement on 3 November, said it strongly condemns the “false accusations” made by the US Central Command, and the incident was “fabricated and politically motivated to justify blockade policies and the reduction of humanitarian support… while covering up the international community’s failure to end the blockade and starvation imposed on civilians in the Gaza Strip”.
US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, also took to X, blaming Hamas for the “attack”
There has been no mention of the regular protests, where ‘Israelis’ try and block aid heading into Gaza, as the footage below shows:
Israeli settlers destroy and loot desperately needed Gaza aid and film it
US CENTCOM claims that Hamas looted a humanitarian aid truck — Maybe we should send this footage to them pic.twitter.com/Zr3SeV1Jba
— Sprinter Press News (@SprinterPress) November 2, 2025
Why have US drones not alerted CMCC about ‘Israeli’ ceasefire violations, when there have been more than 190 ceasefire violations committed by the Israeli occupation against Palestinians, since 10 October. Also, there has been no mention from the US about the arming of gangs which are rivals of Hamas. Netanyahu admitted to arming these gangs, which have manufactured chaos in the enclave and, according to the UN, stolen aid from starving Palestinians.
UN: aid theft carried out “by criminal gangs, under the watch of Israeli forces”
In a statement back in May, Jonathan Whittall, head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), claimed the Israeli occupation’s accusations that UN and partners’ aid is being diverted by Hamas “doesn’t hold up to scrutiny.” He said:
The real theft of aid since the beginning of the war has been carried out by criminal gangs, under the watch of Israeli forces.
The accusations continue even though, earlier this year, both the US State Department and ‘Israeli’ army officials also denied the ‘Israeli’ government’s claims of Hamas carrying out large scale looting of humanitarian aid trucks.
During this First Phase of the ‘ceasefire’ plan, the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) still control more than half of the Gaza Strip, holding around 40 active military positions in Gaza that are outside the ‘yellow line’, behind which they are withdrawing. Much of Khan Younis is still under IOF control, which currently holds 11 military positions there.
Militia gangs in Khan Younis
These maps, from a Sky News investigation into militia gangs in Gaza, show us that Hossam Al-Astal’s militia which is based in Khan Younis is positioned close to, and protected by, Israeli occupation forces positioned nearby. Al-Astal, who is leader of the Al-Majida group, told both Sky News and ‘Israeli’ publication Ynet that he has ‘close contacts‘ with the US and ‘Israel’.
Looting of aid has “sharply declined” since the ‘ceasefire’, from 80% in the months before to now only five percent.
Although the IOF still control large areas of Gaza, such as in Khan Younis and Rafah, the military has retreated from several of the other areas. Hamas has explained the decrease in looting, saying:
All manifestations of chaos and looting ended immediately after the withdrawal of the occupying forces, proving that the occupation was the only party that sponsored these gangs, and orchestrated the chaos accompanying its presence.
US military’s CENTCOM lies: “Over 600 trucks” daily into Gaza
In its statement on 31 October, CENTCOM also claimed:
Over 600 trucks of aid and commercial goods have been entering Gaza daily in recent days, and this incident “undermines these efforts.”
CENTCOM is intentionally lying about the number of aid trucks the Israeli occupation has allowed to enter into Gaza. Although the ‘ceasefire’ agreement required that “full aid be immediately sent into the Gaza Strip” at levels matching the previous ceasefire of 19 January 2025 – around 600 trucks daily – the Israeli regime has not honoured its ‘ceasefire’ obligations.
The Israeli regime: violation after violation of the ‘ceasefire’ agreement
The UN, aid groups, and Gaza’s Government Media Office have consistently stated that the number of trucks is nowhere near 600. The Government Media Office said on 1 November there were a total of only 3,203 trucks entering the Strip, between 10 October 2025 – when the ‘ceasefire’ came into effect – and 31 October.
639 of these were commercial goods – which Gaza’s population cannot afford to purchase – 84 were diesel, and 31 were cooking gas trucks. The daily average of all incoming trucks (commercial and aid, food or otherwise) stood at only 145 of the 600 that should be entering the Strip.
Last month, between 10 and 21 October, the Israeli regime denied the entry of urgent shipments of aid belonging to 17 international NGOs. Three-quarters of these denials were issued on the grounds that organizations are ‘not authorised’ to deliver humanitarian aid into Gaza. ‘Israel’ continues to deny aid access into Gaza, to the desperate population, while nearly $50 million in humanitarian supplies still remain stuck at crossings and warehouses.
Hamas is questioning how these endless crimes by the occupation have all gone unnoticed- “The killing of 254 Palestinians since the start of the ceasefire-91% of whom were civilians, including 105 children”, the daily violations of the “yellow line”, and the systematic demolition of civilian homes in territories still under occupation.
The US: “a partner in the blockade and the suffering of the Palestinian people”
Hamas says:
If the UAVs (drones) of the so-called world superpower managed to capture a fabricated image of a single truck, they somehow failed to see- or chose to ignore- the daily Israeli crimes witnessed and documented by the entire world in both conscience and humanity…
The continuation of Washington’s adoption of the Israeli narrative only deepens its immoral bias and places it squarely as a partner in the blockade and the suffering of the Palestinian people…
The United States, which receives daily reports on these violations, does not need drones to recognise the magnitude of the crimes- it only needs a measure of human conscience and political responsibility to stop justifying the occupation.
Overall, this incident makes clear that the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza is being manipulated for political gain. As the ceasefire remains out of reach, and aid trucks are bottlenecked at the border , conflicting accounts from the occupation, Hamas, and the US reveal a deeper struggle over truth, accountability, and control of Gaza’s future.
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By Charlie Jaay
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