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https://wapo.st/41cwYCB


"... Humanitarian aid has been one of the most controversial aspects of the war between Israel and Hamas, which is now approaching its second anniversary. In recent weeks, it has emerged as a final sticking point in negotiations over a ceasefire, placing the Israeli- and U.S.-backed GHF squarely in the crosshairs of the latest talks.

Hamas is demanding a return to the U.N.-coordinated system of aid delivery that operated in Gaza for decades. Israel charges that Hamas has corrupted that system. It wants to maintain strict controls on assistance to Gazans, using the newly created GHF as the primary mechanism for food distribution.

Like much of what happens inside Gaza, where Israel has banned international reporters except on brief tours led by the Israel Defense Forces, the origins and operations of the GHF remain obscure. Even more opaque is its funding. The foundation says it received about $100 million in start-up money from a government it has declined to identify. In late June, the Trump administration said it would supply $30 million to GHF operations.

... But behind the foundation, which is a registered nonprofit, is a web of interconnected U.S. and Israeli individuals, and private U.S. companies — including some that hope to eventually make money on the relief effort, according to public and private documents reviewed by The Post and interviews with more than a dozen U.S. and Israeli government officials, business representatives and others involved, who spoke on the condition of anonymity about the controversial initiative..."

Palestinians seem to be getting very little food.

And no, it’s not because they are concerned for their safety.

are mercenaries. Period. Not nice people. People where hope and help go to die. Second, this sentence stood out to me:

And THERE is one of the main problems. Humanitarian aid is NOT a profit making enterprise. And, if companies make profit from it, they are cheating someone somewhere, and it's usually those who are starving to death who are the most cheated.

Partial transcript below, 6:30 minutes.

"This video is of the foundation's
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armed American security guards opening
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fire.
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I think you hit one."


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are themselves starving. Israel does not
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allow international journalists to enter
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the territory.
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So, we went to a spot overlooking Gaza,
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a vantage point in the frontline town of
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Stirat, where Hamas attacked and killed
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Israeli civilians on the 7th of October,
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2023.
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Israelis come here to look at the war
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only a few miles away. It was hazy so it
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was hard to see and the steady sound of
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Israeli artillery was carried away on
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the wind. Since my last visit, vending
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machines have been installed if anyone
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needs refreshment. From here it feels
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like looking out of one world into
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another. Not distant but remote and
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isolated. So from up here there are
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essentially two visions of what's
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happening in that world. Israel
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supported by the United States says
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there's plenty of food in Gaza and if
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people are going hungry that's because
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Hamas has been stealing it and because
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the UN and others have not been
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distributing it in the way that they
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should be."