The real question is why isn't the UN working with the government - Hamas in this case - to deliver the aid. Palestinians rely on UN relief but it doesn't mean they have to give up their sovereign right to run their own affairs. The western media reports seem to imply that Hamas is an entitiy beyond the civilian population when in fact they are of course one and the same, like all genuine resistance movements.
A UN spokesman said policemen raided a UN warehouse on Tuesday after officials refused to hand over the aid to a Hamas-controlled ministry.
From the BBC
The UN said it was the first time its aid had been confiscated by Hamas.
It condemned the action and demanded the goods be immediately returned. Hamas denied its men had taken any aid.
UN spokesman Christopher Gunness said Hamas police took 3,500 blankets and over 400 food parcels.
The Hamas Social Affairs Minister in Gaza, Ahmed al-Kurd, denied that members of the Islamist movement had removed aid from a UN building.
However, he said his ministry was in dispute with the UN relief agency about how aid should be distributed.
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