Gaza Humanitarian Foundation Is Formally Dead and Gone

Nov. 27—The so-called “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation” is now formally closed. Its operations, run by the United States and Israel, ceased last month as of the time of the ceasefire announcement, and today GAF Executive Director, John Acree issued a statement on the permanent end of the agency. Acree bragged about the successful “new approach” GHF had pioneered, which in fact was infamous for food insufficiency, inaccessibility, overall malfunction, and a death toll from IDF and other forces.

Despite its claims of providing enough meals for 500,000 people/day (less than a quarter of the population), what the GAF actually did, by their own numbers, is distribute one 40-pound box per day to a bit over 1.0% of the population (less than 1.14%). The heating oil and water necessary to turn almost all of the contents of those boxes into something edible were not generally available, and GHF made no arrangements to provide them. For this, on average, over 13 people per day were shot to death attempting to get one of the boxes; some estimates put that death toll from IDF fire and fire GHF armed guards at over 3,500.

In July, the commissioner-general of the UN Relief and Works Agency, the organization whose successful aid distribution had functioned until the Butcher of Gaza Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s administration banned them from Gaza, had called for an end to GHF, saying it “provides nothing but starvation and gunfire to the people of #Gaza.”

The GHF has nominally turned over whatever functions it was doing to the new Civil-Military Coordination Center (CMCC) run by the U.S. and based in Israel.