A United Nations official finally said what Israel has been saying all along: Hamas terrorists have been commandeering aid trucks, stealing aid, and intimidating and harassing aid workers.

Video footage from Gaza shows armed, masked men riding atop aid trucks, randomly shooting their rifles in the air as the trucks are driven recklessly and wildly down the street.

U.N. Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Ramiz Alakbarov said in a statement that Hamas’ interference with humanitarian operations “endangered humanitarian personnel, intimidated workers delivering life-saving food assistance and disrupted life-saving humanitarian operations,” adding that armed Hamas operatives forced their way into a food distribution center in northern Gaza over the weekend.

They “also entered a WFP [World Food Programme] warehouse and reportedly assaulted two truck drivers who were delivering humanitarian supplies,” he said.

The U.N. peace process coordinator noted that “these incidents are not isolated” and “reflect an increasingly dangerous pattern of intimidation, violence and obstruction, including smuggling attempts, targeting and abusing humanitarian operations.”

COGAT welcomed the statement, saying that “This constitutes further clear evidence that Hamas cynically exploits the humanitarian space and the aid intended for the residents of the Gaza Strip for its own purposes.”

While Israel has insisted that Hamas has obstructed humanitarian efforts, stealing vast amounts of aid for itself, others have argued that desperate, starving Palestinians were the ones who were looting. That argument was always hard to make, and now it just got a whole lot harder.