On May 24, 2025, The New York Times reported that Israel’s plan to transfer Gaza food distribution from UN agencies to private contractors is the result of a year-long effort by a coalition of Israeli military reservists, tech investors, and business leaders. This group aims to weaken Hamas’s control while avoiding what they see as biased international aid organisations. Preliminary discussions about this plan began in late 2023 among officials, military personnel, and business figures close to the Israeli government. They formed the Mikveh Yisrael Forum, named after the college where they met in December 2023. The forum’s members supported using private contractors for food distribution in Gaza, bypassing the UN. According to the report, key members include Yotam HaCohen and Liran Tancman, both of whom joined COGAT, the military department overseeing aid to Gaza, and Michael Eisenberg, an Israeli-American venture capitalist. Throughout 2024, the forum sought support from Israeli political leaders and military commanders while refining their contentious plan with foreign contractors, especially Reilly.
Reilly’s organisation, Safe Reach Solutions, in collaboration with other security firms, would initially set up four distribution centres in southern Gaza regions that are under Israeli military control. UN officials promptly challenged the proposal, cautioning that the proposed system could facilitate an Israeli strategy aimed at displacing civilians from northern Gaza, as the initial distribution sites would solely function in the south. Earlier this year, the name of a nonprofit organisation established in February 2025 in Switzerland, referred to as the ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’ (GHF), began to surface. Curiously, none of the board members appears to have a background in humanitarian work. Notably, Jake Wood, the Executive Director of GHF, who resigned yesterday, had informed the New York Times that:
“I would participate in no plan in any capacity if it was an extension of an IDF plan or an Israeli government plan to forcibly dislocate people anywhere within Gaza.”
Wood’s resignation seems to have been largely driven by Israel’s Machiavellian aid plan for Gaza, which he deemed “impossible to implement” while adhering to humanitarian principles. Not only did he understand that GHF would never be allowed to operate independently in the Strip, but he may also have recognised Israel’s true motives, which appear to be the promotion of ‘voluntary migration’, which effectively amounts to the forced displacement of Gaza’s civilian population. On Monday, GHF appointed John Acree as the interim executive director, highlighting his over twenty years of experience in disaster response and civil-military coordination. It is worth noting that Acree has strong ties with USAID, a known CIA’s front. Today, the Foundation also announced the start of food distribution in Gaza, aiming to provide around 300 million meals in the first 90 days of operation.
For the last two years, the United States and Israel have worked together to discredit and undermine UNRWA, the primary United Nations aid organisation in Palestine. The Biden administration has ceased its financial contributions, and Israel has moved to entirely prohibit the agency’s operations. In this void, GHF and its numerous private contractors have emerged—not to aid Palestinians, but to more efficiently manage their displacement…
IMAGE: Palestinian children wait to receive food in Rafah (Source: Reuters)
Robert Inlakesh reports for Mint Press News…
Weaponised Aid: Wall Street, Zionists, and Ex-CIA Operatives Take Over Gaza Relief
With over half a million people in Gaza on the brink of starvation and aid groups warning of an “imminent famine,” Israel has agreed to allow a token number of relief trucks into the besieged enclave. But what’s entering Gaza now isn’t humanitarian aid, it’s a Trojan horse.
A new, U.S.-backed private aid scheme staffed by former CIA operatives, ex-Marines, and mercenaries tied to Israeli intelligence and Wall Street elites has been deployed in Gaza under the guise of relief. The project is led by a shady NGO registered in Switzerland just months ago, and human rights groups are calling it what it is: a hostile corporate takeover of the aid sector, designed to militarise relief, displace civilians, and profit from Gaza’s agony.
At the heart of this scheme is the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a nonprofit created in February and backed by Israeli authorities. Despite Gaza requiring a minimum of 500 aid trucks per day to meet basic survival needs, the Israeli military allowed just 1% of that to enter this week.
GHF, which now controls the operation, was launched by individuals with no background in humanitarian work—David Papazian, formerly with the Armenian National Interests Fund; Samuel Marcel Henderson; and David Kohler. They are corporate executives, not aid workers. According to a leaked internal proposal circulated in May, GHF plans to establish four “secure distribution sites” in Gaza capable of feeding just a fraction of the population (300,000 people), while giving the Israeli military and its contractors full operational oversight.
This privatised model was fast-tracked with Israeli cabinet approval and immediately condemned by Amnesty International’s Swiss branch, which called it an attempt to “militarise the distribution of humanitarian aid” and warned that the planned distribution sites resembled Israel’s “safe zone” blueprint for ethnic cleansing.
Jens Laerke, spokesperson for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), said GHF threatened the UN with expulsion if it refused to cooperate. “They’re coming to take over, weaponising aid,” Laerke told reporters in Geneva.
A U.S. government source speaking to France 24 called the project “very much an Israeli idea,” adding that it was “less secure” and “deadlier” than the Biden administration’s failed floating aid pier, a costly boondoggle ultimately used to support an Israeli military operation that slaughtered nearly 300 Palestinian civilians.
GHF’s newly appointed executive director is Jake Wood, a former U.S. Marine sniper turned disaster entrepreneur. After tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, Wood founded Team Rubicon, an NGO that made its name in Haiti following the 2010 earthquake.
But Team Rubicon is no ordinary aid group. It is closely partnered with Palantir Technologies—a CIA-backed data surveillance firm that equips the Israeli military with advanced targeting capabilities. Its board includes former CIA Director David Petraeus and financial backers from Goldman Sachs. Former Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton have publicly endorsed its work.
The GHF proposal reveals plans to work with both Truist Bank and JPMorgan Chase, and suggests Goldman Sachs is facilitating the organization’s financial infrastructure.
As for security, GHF is outsourcing protection of its aid zones to U.S.-based private military firms, some of which have direct ties to Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer. Two firms are already confirmed. One, Safe Reach Solutions, is run by Philip F. Reilly, a former CIA paramilitary chief who also worked for Constellis, the rebranded face of Blackwater. While Erik Prince, Blackwater’s notorious founder, has not been directly linked to GHF, his newer mercenary firm, Reflex Responses, was previously proposed to secure Gaza’s Rafah crossing.
The second firm, UG Solutions, hired approximately 100 former special forces soldiers earlier this year to perform vehicle inspections in Gaza. They were reportedly paid $1,000 per day with a $10,000 upfront bonus. UG Solutions is headed by Jameson Govoni, a former special ops operative and co-founder of the Sentinel Foundation.
These contractors were also reportedly involved in staffing the Netzarim corridor, a road that bisects Gaza, during a recent ceasefire. Their presence on the ground—and the opacity around their funding—marks a new phase in the U.S. and Israeli campaign to dominate Gaza not just by bombs, but through control of the most basic elements of life: food, water, and movement. Even Israel’s closest regional ally, the United Arab Emirates, has refused to participate in the project, likely due to the plan’s political toxicity.
This scheme doesn’t exist in a vacuum. For years, the U.S. and Israel have worked to undermine UNRWA, the UN’s primary aid agency in Palestine. The Biden administration froze its funding, while Israel moved to outlaw the agency entirely. In the vacuum, GHF and its army of private contractors have emerged—not to serve Palestinians, but to manage their displacement more efficiently.
With American taxpayer dollars flowing into the hands of former intelligence agents, globalist financiers, and mercenaries, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation represents the convergence of Silicon Valley surveillance, Wall Street speculation, and Zionist military objectives.
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