Why don't the UN intervene?

[DBD1975]

Am I being unreasonable to think the UN should go into Gaza and feed the people who are starving?

I just don't get it, I am fed up with governments condemning the situation whilst day after day iit goes on.

I don't think the rights and wrongs of the situation and the politics matter, a starving child is a starving child and I cannot believe the rest of the world is allowing this to happen.

I just want something done about the situation and I cannot believe anyone would be prepared to fire on the UN.

What is the point of the UN if they don't intervene in warfare where innocent people are being allowed to starve to death.

They are complicit in this. Aid is there but they’re preventing it being delivered. Useless organisation in every respect, especially for not actually condemning Hamas on oct 7th

Does the UN Security Council have to agree to an intervention?

If so, it may be that one or other of the 5 permanent member states would veto it. I wouldn't be at all surprised if the Americans were prepared to use the veto, tbh.

There has to be agreement. They can’t just go rushing in.

Because the UN never do anything, they are utterly useless. Remember the surprise when it turned out there were actually UN peacekeeping forces in south Lebanon along the Lebanese /Israeli border? They had just been sat there for months watching Hizbullah operate nearby and launch rockets over their heads...
I mean, the UN put Iran as chair of the conference on disarmament and before that it was N. Korea. They are an utterly useless organisation who widen divisions and do more harm than good.

How would the UN even get troops into Gaza? By what route? What should they do when Hamas fighters attack them? What should they do when the IDF attacks them? And when they run out of supplies, how will they get out?

Air drops are the only way to go really (though far from ideal).

Also, Egypt is just as complicit in preventing aid getting in as Israel, they are not getting slagged off nearly enough.

The UN isn't an autonomous entity. What it does depends on the will of the majority of member states. That said, it could be done. Safe zones accessed via a humanitarian corridor via Jordan. Feeding stations, treatment stations. All backed up by allied air support. It would take the US to impose it, because the Israeli government would be resistant. We've been here before. Eritrea, Bosnia, Kosovo. It isn't insoluble if there is political will to solve it.

Hamas and Israel cannot take on the whole of the UN if the UN acted together as one. America on it's own could take them down, if the whole UN worked together as one people could be fed.
I find it indefensible that the world stands by and allows people to starve.

The UN is in Gaza. UNICEF, the World Food Programme, etc are two UN agencies (among others) present in Gaza. The problem is Israel’s blockade means these aid agencies are only able to get little amounts of aid in now.

“Before the collapse of the most recent ceasefire, the UN operated a highly effective aid delivery system in Gaza. And during the ceasefire, we were delivering assistance from more than 400 distribution points across the territory. Access to food, safe water, medicines and shelter skyrocketed. Unicef even went door-to-door to reach malnourished children.”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/20/gaza-food-aid-unicef-palestinians-starve