Jihadi Hamas monsters have always blocked aid sent to Gaza – now the useless UN has finally admitted it

Breaking news: Pro wrestling is fake!

Also, reality TV is scripted! And some people on social media are pretending to be much happier, more accomplished and more attractive than they are in real life!

If you find all of the above perfectly and painfully obvious, congratulations: You’re much smarter than the United Nations.

Over at Turtle Bay, everyone’s favorite useless global organization just came to a shocking — shocking! — realization: Hamas is blocking humanitarian aid into Gaza.

“Humanitarian workers were forced to halt food distribution after armed personnel affiliated with the de facto authorities forcibly entered the Abu Rashid food distribution point in Jabalia, North Gaza,” read a statement from Dr. Ramiz Alakbarov, the UN’s Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, who spearheads humanitarian efforts in the Gaza Strip.

“These incidents are not isolated. They are completely unacceptable and reflect an increasingly dangerous pattern of intimidation, violence and obstruction.”

You don’t say!

You mean those jaunty jihadis known for such harmless shenanigans like beheading babies and raping teenagers in their beds would stoop so low as to steal much-needed supplies from their own needy people?

Who could’ve ever seen such a dramatic twist coming?

The IDF, for one. The Israeli army has been publishing detailed reports for some years now, including internal Hamas memos and ledgers seized in raids, that show exactly how the terror group turned the world’s goodwill into a multi-pronged extortion racket.

We’re not talking small potatoes here.

Over the last two years alone, according to sources tracking the aid, approximately 1.8 million tons of food and more than 18,000 tons of medical supplies found their way into the Strip, an area about as big as Manhattan, The Bronx, and Hoboken, NJ, combined.

These goods were then seized by Hamas, often at gunpoint.

The terror group kept the best stuff for its own thugs, made a killing by selling the rest to poor Gazans for severely inflated prices, and, for good measure, charged the merchants selling and distributing the aid protection in return for not blowing up their businesses or worse.

If you’ve ever watched “The Godfather,” you have a general idea of the operation.

The US government, too, realized what Hamas was doing long ago.

For more than two years now, a senior Trump administration official told the Jewish News Service earlier this week, investigators with the inspector general’s office at the US Agency for International Development “consistently flagged incidents of Hamas interference in the delivery of aid, which the UN, until now, chose to ignore.”

Not, mind you, that the UN’s bumbling bureaucrats seem humbled in the least — Alakbarov couldn’t even conclude his own condemnation of Hamas’ vile and vicious tactics without delivering a few vague lines about Israel also being somehow at fault.

What, then, should we do with this recent admission?

It’s tempting to laugh the whole thing off: Alakbarov saying that Hamas steals food and medicine from hungry, sick Palestinians is on par with Captain Renault feigning surprise that there’s gambling going on in “Casablanca” — a delightfully absurd moment that’s really sort of funny.

But the statement, sadly, is more than just a macabre joke.

It’s a reminder that the entire edifice of international organizations, set up in the aftermath of World War II and designed to keep the world from ever sliding again into darkness and chaos, is irreparably broken.

An organization like the UN that takes this long to realize what was perfectly obvious to the rest of us is incompetent at best — and, at worst, intellectually bankrupt and morally corrupt.

We should keep that in mind the next time some globalist on the left gabs about “international law,” or urges America to invest its time and resources in the UN’s failed scams.

But now that Alakbarov has pointed the finger at Hamas, the “pro-Palestine” brigades here at home have some explaining to do.

Will Mayor Zohran Mamdani, say, finally admit that anyone truly interested in improving the lives of ordinary Palestinians should support cracking down on their real oppressors, the food- and medicine-stealing goons of Hamas?

I’m not holding my breath.

But clarity still counts for something, and the latest UN admission gives us the clearest confirmation yet that being “pro-Palestine” doesn’t mean caring about actual Palestinians, or seeing that they’re fed, or freeing them from oppression.

It really just means hating America, Israel and the Jews.

Liel Leibovitz is editor at large for Tablet and senior fellow at the Hudson Institute.