Hamas not sharing international aid? UPDATE: No patients showing up at medical help tent

In latest incident, armed men seize Jordanian aid in Gaza Strip
Jan. 21, 2009

A Jordanian news service reported that armed men seized a Jordanian aid convoy after entering the Gaza Strip on Tuesday. This is one of many reports that have come out during the past month of Hamas' pilfering of supplies.

Palestinians have complained about products meant to be distributed for free, being sold instead at sometimes three times the price. Again from Der Spiegel:

"A cylinder of natural gas used to cost 45 shekels (more than $10) before Hamas took power," says Uday Sakariya, an unemployed engineer. "Nowadays it costs 120." The price of a liter of diesel has risen by four shekels to 15 shekels, a can of chickpea paste from two shekels to 3.50, he says. "This is no life anymore."

The anger is directed not only against the Israelis, who imposed a blockade on the Gaza Strip after the Hamas coup against the rival Fatah movement in 2007, but increasingly against the radical Islamists themselves. "Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Egypt have been sending flour, sugar and milk powder, but the government is not distributing it -- they sell it!"

In the latest incident involving Jordanian aid, the armed men allegedly opened fire at drivers after crossing Kerem Shalom crossing point and forced them to head to their own warehouses.

Israel is also providing medical aid for wounded civilians and terrorists in Gaza. A facility has been set up at the border for the wounded. And civilians are pitching in too. As Operation Cast Lead drew to a close, hundreds of Israelis, including those from rocket-battered communities in the Gaza periphery, mobilized to help suffering civilians on the opposite side of the border with food and clothing collections.

UPDATE: However, no patients are showing up for free treatment at the hands of Israeli doctors.

"I spent the whole day there [Monday] and not one person came to us for help," said one doctor, who preferred to remain anonymous. "The people there are scared, scared of us and scared of Hamas. The clinic is an amazing thing but I can't blame them for not wanting to come to us. It is just very frustrating."