The UN is a mess alright, with the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing half the time, and the right hand shooting off its mouth without consulting the left hand, the other half of the time, so-to-speak.
As a matter of personal opinion, to my way only-sparsely-read and -informed and -considered way of thinking, in connection with the United Nations...
The UN Security Council, with its Permanent Five (US, UK, France, Russia and China) - any of whom can veto a UN Security Council Resolution for any reason whatsoever - is charged with matters of security and war and peace, and Israel usually has enough friends and sympathetic nations sitting on the Council at any given time in order to block anything extreme and overly-detrimental from either being Resolved or Enacted in connection with its existence and well-being.
The UN General Assembly is a Grand Idea but is oftentimes little more than a Global Old Ladies' Debating Society - toothless and powerless - but at least it's a place for the world's peoples to come altogether to showcase ideas and to air grievances and to propose solutions and to pump requests for further action up to the Council, which sometimes acts on those requests, and sometimes does not.
But, unfortunately, it also seems that the UN General Assembly - with its large number of Muslim-dominated states, and the much larger number of oil-poor states who believe that they must kiss Arab (and allied) asses in order to keep the oil flowing - has become, in large part, a pro-Palestinian and anti-Israeli Glee Club...
If the UN was a reasonably well-run, coordinated, effective Guiding or Governing Body - then it, or any one of its subordinate agencies or departments, or any its commissioners or department or agency heads - would manifest an objective, even-handed range of demands and behaviors and outcomes.
In our narrow context here, notice how that 'senior UN official' shot-off his mouth about the Israeli aspect of The Gaza Blockade, without so much as even mentioning the Egyptian aspect of The Gaza Blockade (insofar as we know, from this short article, anyway)?
Rightly or wrongly, this strikes me as symptomatic of the Cancer of Subjectivity that has taken-hold of much of the Body we call the United Nations, in connection with the Israeli-Palestinian Troubles.
Of course, various elements of the UN, from the Secretary General on down, have been calling for the end of The Gaza Blockade for many months now, but seemingly piecemeal, and disjointed, and without regard for how many of the materials presently embargoed have been (and would be) used, should they be allowed back into the region, by a loosening or lifting of The Blockade.
Gazans can blame their idiot masters - Hamas - for getting them into this fix in the first place, and for stupidly using construction materials (like concrete) for purposes certain to alarm or enrage both the Israelis and Egyptians and to cause them to embargo those materials as well.
Hamas = Savage, Incompetent Fools.
Now, had the UN at-large - or any of its supposedly-responsible department heads - called for a lifting of the embargo upon concrete and included within that call a proposal to undertake a strict accounting by a mutually-agreeable third-party to ensure that those bulk materials were not being diverted or 'cut' (diluted) to any substantial degree, well, the call might have had a bit more credibility.
But when these un-thinking, blinkered, single-purpose types get on their high horse, and fail to address the underlying cause for those materials to have been embargoed in the first place, well, it simply serves to showcase either the bias or tunnel-vision of such folk, or both - incompetency on the macro level.
When the UN begins to adequately address concerns on both sides of that divide, consistently and effectively, then, perhaps, I'll find myself doing more than laughing as the Blockaders brush them off like an annoying flea buzzing about their heads.
Ditto for the Israeli-Palestinian Troubles at-large; a much larger issue than The Gaza Blockade or any particular embargoed material(s).
