Right, so Israel's first attempt to distribute aid in Gaza under the guise of the supposed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, the GHF has not only been a total logistical failure and a calculated act of cruelty, but fatally so into the bargain. Israel has managed to take what it hoped would be a PR exercise in showing they are delivering aid to innocent Palestinians and turned it into an image of reinforcing all the apartheid conditions they’re known for and gone look, we are helping them and assumed the world would be pleased and not further horrified.
Scenes have emerged resembling the darkest chapters of modern history—with lines of starving civilians penned into what look like queues, but are instead essentially wire cages, hemmed in like livestock, and as Israel managed to screw up the aid handouts in Rafah, the bullets were soon flying and the mercenaries hired to oversee the aid distribution fled.
Israel sought to weaponise aid distribution when they themselves have been the source of the starvation and they’ve failed on humanitarian terms, yet again figuring they can propagandise their way out of the corner they are in, but have instead made matters massively worse for themselves, as the people of Gaza continue to suffer.
Right so for months now, on top of 20 months of genocide, Gaza has suffered under an Israeli-imposed blockade that has pushed the civilian population to the brink of famine. Medical infrastructure has collapsed, clean water is scarce, and two million people have been displaced often more than once.
Israel, facing increasing international criticism over its military actions in Rafah and elsewhere, seized the opportunity to attempt an aid distribution campaign that could polish its image abroad though it was all being done as a supposed US aid exercise. Enter the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, the GHF,—supposedly US backed, but soon turned out to be an Israel-approved NGO that we were meant to believe would deliver critical relief to Palestinians, from the very entity that put them in crisis.
Rather than supporting or coordinating with long-standing humanitarian bodies though, the GHF has established four distribution centres—three in southern Gaza, one in central Gaza, and none in the north, effectively excluding thousands of Palestinians unless they displace themselves southwards once more to access it.
The aid rollout began with chilling optics and this is the image that has done the rounds on social media that has chilled people to the bone when they saw it, rapidly eliciting comparisons with scenes from WWII, literal concentration camps in full colour echoing old black and white scenes that were supposed to be never again moments. Photos and videos circulated showing starving Gazans looking ike they are queuing, but were instead crowded in what amount to metal cages, herded through biometric scanning checkpoints, and made to wait under the watch of Israeli drones and US-hired mercenaries.
Then of course it all went wrong and then came the violence.
As desperation peaked, chaos erupted at the Rafah distribution centre. With aid being handed out far too slowly to meet the needs of the massive crowds—many of whom had not eaten properly in weeks—some Palestinians attempted to push through the fences. In response, the IDF opened fire, it really is their go-to response far too often isn’t it? At least six people were killed, and forty-seven others were injured in the chaos. The armed contractors hired to oversee security fled the scene, abandoning the site and leaving behind the traumatized survivors.
According to a report by Al Jazeera, the crowd surge was predictable and entirely avoidable. Humanitarian organizations had warned that such limited aid, combined with excessive delays and lack of crowd control expertise, would trigger a disaster. But those warnings went unheeded and I doubt few of us are surprised by that, when this was more about optics than delivering aid.
The launch of the GHF, as I covered in another recent video, coincided with the resignation of its CEO, Jake Wood, who said the model chosen to distribute aid couldn’t be done without committing crimes against humanity and he refused to be party to that.
Simultaneously, legal watchdog and fellow Swiss NGO TRIAL International filed a case against GHF in Switzerland, accusing it of complicity in war crimes by enabling Israel’s use of humanitarian aid for population control and propaganda. Yet despite both of these early setbacks, the aid distribution attempt went ahead regardless, to a calamitous conclusion.
Disturbingly, reports have also now surfaced suggesting ties between GHF and Mossad, Israel's notorious foreign intelligence agency. While details remain murky, two former Israeli ministers hinted at intelligence agency involvement, raising serious questions about whether the aid effort is being used as a surveillance operation under the guise of charity not just of the Gazan people, but more widely of other organisations still trying to operate and genuinely help.
Furthermore, an investigation into the contents of the aid boxes revealed that nearly all the food and medical supplies were Israeli-made products—allowing Israel not just to control the flow of goods but also profit from the very suffering it helped create. Humanitarian aid, such as it was and despite the stockpiles of aid that has built up outside the walls of Gaza and Israel, has been used to benefit Israel’s own economy by only using Israeli goods.
As bad as all this was, the gaslighting going on on social media in light of that image of the caged queues.
Its easy to look at that image as taken by drone overhead and think well its just a queue because that is what it looked like, but there is no way forward and going back is not an option.
I’ve read comments saying its just an orderly line, what is wrong with that? When it descended into chaos and 6 people lost their lives. I’ve seen people compare it to queuing for a concert, to the lift lines at a ski resort, to waiting at a bus stop, but you don’t get biometrically scanned, you don’t have guns pointed at you, you aren’t threatened with military assault in any of those instances and quite how disturbing some people can still be has enraged still more people who aren’t so vapid.
One of the most telling moments of the Rafah disaster came not from the IDF, but from the private security firms—those mercenaries—who were hired to oversee the aid distribution. When gunfire erupted and the situation spiralled out of control, they simply fled.
This sudden withdrawal underscored both the volatility of the situation and the lack of preparation. Private military contractors, often motivated by profit – in this case apparently being paid around $1000 a day are typically willing to endure high-risk zones. Their abrupt exit revealed that even they recognized the operation as unsalvageable and out of control.
Their absence left behind unarmed civilians, who ended up being caught between desperation and Israeli bullets.
Reactions from the international community have ranged from horror to furious condemnation. The European Union called for a formal investigation into the events at Rafah and urged Israel to hand over aid distribution to independent humanitarian agencies. Several EU parliamentarians went further, demanding sanctions and suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement, citing flagrant violations of human rights.
The Foundation for Defence of Democracies (FDD), a US right wing think tank often sympathetic to Israeli policy, whilst stamping all over Iran attempted to frame the GHF initiative as a way to "weather international criticism." Yet this framing ends up confirming the entire critique: that the aid operation was more about optics than alleviating suffering.
Meanwhile, Gaza’s Media Office issued a powerful and excoriating statement:
‘"The Israeli occupation has utterly failed in its project to distribute aid in the 'racist buffer zones' amid the collapse of the humanitarian pathway and escalation of the crime of starvation.
We affirm that the Israeli occupation's project to distribute aid in so-called "buffer zones" has completely failed, as confirmed by field reports and even acknowledged by Hebrew media. Thousands of starving people—who have been besieged and denied food and medicine by the occupation for nearly 90 days—rushed into these zones in a heartbreaking and tragic scene. The situation ended with the storming of distribution centres and the seizing of food under the pressure of deadly hunger, prompting the occupation forces to open fire and injure several civilians. This clearly reflects the total collapse of the humanitarian path that the occupation falsely claims to uphold.
What happened today is undeniable proof of the occupation's failure to manage the humanitarian crisis it deliberately created through policies of starvation, blockade, and bombing. It constitutes a continuation of a full-fledged genocide under international law, especially Article II of the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
Moreover, the establishment of "isolated ghettos" for the distribution of limited aid amid danger of death, bullets, and starvation does not reflect any genuine intent to resolve the crisis. Instead, it represents a systematic political engineering aimed at sustaining starvation, dismantling Palestinian society, and imposing politicized humanitarian pathways that serve the occupation's military and security agendas.
Based on this catastrophic failure, we affirm the following:
First: We hold the Israeli occupation fully responsible—legally and morally—for the state of food collapse in Gaza. We condemn its use of aid as a weapon of war and a tool of political blackmail, and its ongoing
obstruction of relief entry through official crossings and international humanitarian organizations.
Second: We call on the United Nations and the Security Council to take immediate and effective action to halt this crime, urgently open the crossings without restriction, and enable humanitarian organizations to carry out their duties independently of the occupation and its agendas.
Third: We demand the dispatch of independent international investigation committees to document the crime of starvation and prosecute Israeli leaders for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Fourth: We appeal to Arab and Islamic nations, and to all free countries of the world, to intervene immediately and activate independent and safe humanitarian channels that break the siege and prevent the occupation from continuing to use food as a vile weapon in its genocidal war.
Fifth: We categorically reject any project that relies on 'buffer zones' or 'humanitarian corridors' under the supervision of the Israeli occupation—the very entity starving, killing, and exterminating civilians. We consider such zones a modern version of racist ghettos that deepen isolation and genocide rather than save lives.
What is happening in Gaza is a major crime unfolding before the eyes of the world, and silence is a clear act of complicity. We will continue to sound the alarm in the name of our great Palestinian people and hold the occupation, along with its backers—led by the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and France—fully responsible for the ongoing famine and mass slaughter of civilians in the Gaza Strip."’
Far from being a neutral humanitarian mission, the GHF initiative appears engineered to deepen division, exacerbate suffering, and shift demographics.
International law forbids the use of starvation as a weapon of war. But by tightly controlling aid flows, creating logistical bottlenecks, and then misrepresenting those efforts in the media, Israel is engaging in a slow, painful siege that violates every principle of humanitarian conduct.
Even under the most generous interpretation, this aid operation is a grotesque failure. Under a more critical and evidence-based lens, it becomes an act of collective punishment in and of itself, only Israel could possibly turn aid distribution into a war crime surely?
Statements and condemnation are one thing, but the world must respond with more than that now, because these people are still being starved as aid claims to be arriving and this excerpt from Drop Site News spells that point out:
‘While the US State Department announced that 8,000 food boxes, equal to 462,000 meals, were distributed on Tuesday through the US-Israeli Gaza 'Humanitarian' Foundation, Gaza humanitarian coordinator Eyad Amawi told Drop Site News that only 7 trucks arrived—barely enough for a single camp.
“Eight thousand food boxes would require more than 7 trucks to deliver,” he said.
Amawi called the effort “symbolic and superficial,” adding that Gaza needs at least 600 aid trucks daily to meet the needs of over 2 million people.
Palestinians caged like animals by private US military contractors in Gaza
The Israeli endorsed Gaza aid distribution system that US & Israeli investors have pushed in a drive to privatise aid during a genocide & to contribute to an ethnic cleansing plan, entails using private military contractors who force Palestinians into cages to line up for the bare minimum amount of food required to survive.’
Privatising a genocide and the claimed aid that Israel say has been delivered cannot from a logistical perspective possibly be true.
The GHF’s activities should be shut down. Aid must be placed in the hands of neutral, experienced actors like the United Nations via UNRWA and the Red Crescent. Israel must be held accountable for using starvation as a weapon. And the global public must refuse to be complicit in a system where food and water become instruments of war.
What we witnessed in Gaza was not a relief effort. It was a grotesque performance—where mercy was mimicked, dignity was crushed, and the only winners were those who are literally profiting right now from all of this pain.
Amid all the aid that Israel are failing to deliver though, come the claims that to let anyone else deliver aid is to let Hamas steal it. Well that claim just got blown apart utterly and you won’t believe which US establishment figure did so at that, so do check out this video recommendation as your suggested next watch for more on that.
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