The World Food Programme (WFP) has seen no evidence that Hamas is stealing humanitarian aid, the UN organisation’s executive director told US broadcaster CBS, Al Jazeera reports.

“No, not at all,” Cindy McCain responded when asked by an interviewer.

“Listen, these people are desperate, and they see a World Food Programme truck coming in and they run for it,” she said.

“This doesn’t have anything to do with Hamas or any kind of organised crime, or anything. It has simply to do with the fact that these people are starving to death, and so we will continue to go in.”

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