Eitan Fischberger
This is unreal. Turns out the UN only counts Gaza aid trucks from UNRWA and the WFP. In December alone, they neglected to count the aid from 43 other organizations—totaling 2,252 trucks. All the headlines about "aid shortages" in Gaza are a lie, and the UN is responsible.
Avi Bitterman, MD
Just so everyone is clear about why @ochaopt / @UNRWA is systematically undercounting trucks (as noted by @cogatonline) they are literally only counting trucks from just 2 humanitarian aid agencies: only UNRWA (11%) and WFP (89%) trucks are counted from the period of Dec 1st - Dec 29th. Literally all other humanitarian aid groups are blank from the dataset as if they never existed. This amounted to thousands of trucks simply wiped, by the way. Also, even the listed 240 trucks (11%) from UNRWA is misleading as this appears to be backlogged trucks logged at the point of collection, many of which appear to be screened prior to December. In fact in December 1-29th only 32 trucks were screened by COGAT database. By contrast, the WFP truck numbers (1,965) for Dec 1st - 29th more closely match the COGAT (1,439) and fall in line with the expected differences in truck numbers due to differences in truck size between delivery and pickup and some degree reasonable of pickup lag. Here are the total trucks for this period (Dec 1 - 29th) organized by humanitarian donor, number of trucks, whether OCHA reported such trucks, and importantly **whether OCHA gave a disclaimer if they did NOT report trucks** (screenshot below). As we can see, the only disclaimer OCHA currently has on their website is that they don't count private sector trucks. But in reality they actually don't count around half the humanitarian sector trucks either. They undercounted by 2,252 trucks with no disclaimer whatsoever. Yet another example of flagrant data fabrication from a supposedly reputable third party.
