A post shared on X, the social media platform previously known as Twitter, claims the United Nations (UN) stated no inspections were conducted on trucks recently entering the Gaza Strip.

The #UN stated that no inspections were conducted on the trucks entering the #Gaza Strip, and no officials verified their contents. This raises the question of whether the items transported were genuinely humanitarian aid or potentially included additional rockets for #Hamas.

— SK News (@SKnewsII) October 21, 2023

Verdict: False

There is no evidence supporting the claim. The claim appears to have circulated in response to an error in an Oct. 21 New York Times article that has since been corrected. A UN spokesperson denied the claim’s validity in an email to Check Your Fact.

Fact Check:

Israel has demanded that United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres resign over comments he made regarding a surprise Oct. 7 attack on the country by Hamas, according to BBC News. While Guterres condemned the attacks in a recent speech, he claimed they “did not happen in a vacuum,” the outlet reported.

“The #UN stated that no inspections were conducted on the trucks entering the #Gaza Strip, and no officials verified their contents. This raises the question of whether the items transported were genuinely humanitarian aid or potentially included additional rockets for #Hamas,” the X post purports. The post does not provide a source to support the claim.

The claim is false, however. Check Your Fact neither found the claim referenced on the UN’s website nor its verified social media accounts. In addition, there was no mention of trucks delivering aid to Gaza not being inspected in two recent articles published by the UN. Furthermore, Check Your Fact did not find any credible news reports supporting the claim.

The claim appears to have first circulated via an Oct. 21 X post from Israeli media personality Hananya Naftali.

“The UN said it DID NOT check the trucks that entered the Gaza Strip. No official checked it. No one. How do we know it’s humanitarian aid and not more rockets for Hamas?” Naftali wrote.

The UN said it DID NOT check the trucks that entered the Gaza Strip.

No official checked it. No one.

How do we know it’s humanitarian aid and not more rockets for Hamas?

— Hananya Naftali (@HananyaNaftali) October 21, 2023

Naftali may have shared the X post based on an error that appeared in a New York Times report that was published the same day, according to Misbar. The report quoted Stéphane Dujarric, the Chief Spokesman for Guterres, as saying, “the first aid convoy that crossed from Egypt to Gaza had not been inspected for weapons,” also according to Misbar. The New York Times later clarified Dujarric’s comment, writing, “the Israeli side was fully aware of their content,” Misbar indicated. (RELATED: X Post Misleads On Mutiny In Israeli Air Force)

UN spokesperson Florencia Soto Nino-Martinez denied the claim’s validity in an email to Check Your Fact.

“We did not state what is said on the tweet,” Nino-Martinez said. “In fact, the NYT mischaracterized what the Spokesman, Stéphane Dujarric, said and issued a correction,” she added.

Nino-Martinez also provided Check Your Fact a screenshot showing the correction.