Two UAE aid convoys carrying 260 tonnes of food supplies entered <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/tags/gaza">Gaza</a> this week, as the country's humanitarian operation continues its <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/tags/aid">relief</a> efforts. The convoys, comprising 10 lorries, were dispatched under Operation Gallant Knight 3, the UAE's initiative providing relief to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Their arrival brings the total number of lorries to have entered Gaza under the operation to 14,594, collectively transporting 138,290 tonnes of humanitarian aid since the mission's launch.
The convoys are assembled and prepared at the UAE Humanitarian Aid Logistics Centre in Al Arish, Egypt, where an integrated system manages the receiving, sorting, preparation and dispatch of supplies, state news agency Wam reported on Sunday. Since the launch of Operation Gallant Knight 3, the UAE has provided more than $4 billion in humanitarian assistance to Gaza, accounting for 46 per cent of global humanitarian aid directed to the enclave since 2023.
That assistance has included 130,708 tonnes of relief, medical and food supplies delivered by 796 aircraft, 25 ships and 14,483 lorries. By channelling aid through established logistics networks and co-ordinating with Egyptian authorities at the Rafah crossing, the operation aims to ensure supplies reach those most in need in a structured and efficient manner.
The National reports two UAE aid convoys entering Gaza, relying on the UAE state news agency Wam. Its running totals contradict each other. The article gives a tonnage for lorries alone that exceeds the tonnage it says all aircraft, ships and lorries delivered together, and its new lorry total does not add up against the total it reported a week earlier.
Uses figures that mislead
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“130,708 tonnes of relief, medical and food supplies delivered by 796 aircraft, 25 ships and 14,483 lorries”
Why this matters
The article gives 130,708 tonnes delivered by aircraft, ships and 14,483 lorries combined.
The impression it gives
A reader takes these as the operation's settled totals.
The context
Three sentences earlier the article says lorries alone carried 138,290 tonnes, and that 14,594 lorries had entered. The combined total cannot be smaller than the lorry total, so the article's own figures contradict each other and a reader cannot tell which total is right.
How we know
Elsewhere in the article“collectively transporting 138,290 tonnes of humanitarian aid”
Elsewhere in the article“brings the total number of lorries to have entered Gaza under the operation to 14,594”
The article says the 10 new lorries bring the operation's total to 14,594.
The impression it gives
A reader takes the new total as the old total plus this week's lorries.
The context
A week earlier The National put the total at 14,579. Adding the 10 lorries this article reports gives 14,589, not 14,594. The tonnage rose by exactly the 260 tonnes reported, but the lorry count does not add up.