![Trucks carrying humanitarian aid are passing through the Kissufim Border Crossing and heading towards Gaza under the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas and reach the Gaza Strip in Deir al-Balah, Gaza on November 12, 2025. [Mohammed Nassar - Anadolu Agency]](https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/AA-20251112-39691593-39691578-TRUCKS_LOADED_WITH_HUMANITARIAN_AID_CONTINUE_TO_ENTER_GAZA.jpg)
Israel deliberately backed looters who attacked aid convoys in Gaza, prominent French historian Jean-Pierre Filiu has revealed. The looting is said to have been part of a calculated campaign to undermine both Palestinian authorities and international humanitarian agencies. Filiu, professor of Middle East studies at Sciences Po in Paris, spent over a month in Gaza during the genocide at the end of 2023. In his new eyewitness account, A Historian in Gaza, Filiu says he witnessed compelling evidence that Israeli military operations directly facilitated the looting of desperately needed aid. Writing about a specific incident in Al-Mawasi, a supposed “humanitarian zone” densely packed with displaced Palestinians, Filiu recounts how, after weeks of aid convoys being raided, the UN attempted a […]
