Is the Pig in the hangar?

UN halts Gaza aid after Hamas hijacks humanitarian aid convoy.

The United Nations today halted humanitarian supplies into Gaza after Hamas forces seized an aid convoy.

Members of the Islamist group which controls the territory took control of 10 trucks in the second such confiscation within two days.

The aid had been intended for the victims of the Israeli offensive which killed 1,300 Palestinians, left 5,000 wounded and thousands homeless.

Christopher Gunness, spokesman for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) which supports much of Gaza’s 1.5 million population, said: “The Hamas government must return all of the aid that’s been confiscated… and we have to be given by the Hamas government credible assurances that this will not happen again.