Sweeping overhaul of Gaza aid raises questions of morality and workability

The Washington Post ^ | Gerry Shih , Cate Brown , Claire Parker and Karen DeYoung

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Concerns raised in a confidential planning document appear prescient, with humanitarian groups, possible donors and some senior IDF officers questioning the plan. May 24, 2025 at 2:00 a.m. EDT

JERUSALEM — Last year, a group of former U.S. intelligence and defense officials and business executives, working in close consultation with Israel, prepared a proposal for supplying humanitarian aid to Gaza that would address Israeli government claims that assistance was being diverted by Hamas.

In previously unreported internal documents, the group detailed a radically new and ambitious model: It envisioned the creation of an organization called the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) that would hire armed private contractors to provide logistics and security for a handful of aid distribution hubs to be built in southern Gaza. Under the arrangement, which would replace existing aid distribution networks coordinated by the United Nations, Palestinian civilians would have to travel to the hubs and submit to identity checks to receive rations from NGOs. Eventually, according to the plan, Palestinians would live in guarded compounds that would each house up to tens of thousands of noncombatants.

But as early as November, the documents showed, the planners anticipated that the foundation could face potentially damaging questions from the public about its opaque origins, qualifications and moral legitimacy. Those concerns about possible pushback now appear prescient, with prominent humanitarian agencies and prospective donors balking, some senior officers in the Israeli military questioning the plan — and even some people who participated in the foundation’s early planning distancing themselves from the project, citing moral qualms over the possibility that it would enable the forced displacement of Palestinians or misuse biometrics.

The GHF’s Gaza aid operation is scheduled to launch Monday. Whether it succeeds — and how it operates — holds tremendous implications for the 2 million Palestinians who are sealed...

[econjack]

Sounds a lot like a Beggar-Chooser problem. I’d just walk away until the people in Gaza decide if they want peace or not.

[Jeff Chandler]

Oh no, WaPo is CONCERNED!

[sopo]

Nothing much raises questions of morality for them, that’s for sure

[Dalberg-Acton]

I don’t think there should be ANY foreign aid.

[ETCM]

Any plan that prevents Hamas from murdering Israelis is unacceptable to the left.

[Lurker]

Ef the Gazans. Let them all starve.

I’ll crack a beer when the last one expires.

L

[zeestephen]

The Israeli Hard Left gave all these documents to the Washington Post.

How come WaPo never leaks secret documents from Hamas?

[drypowder]

Why would anyone want to give aid to people who want to kill them?

[faithhopecharity]

the WashPost running to the support of the Arab Occupation terrorists again
as always

maybe Israel should wise up and stop trucking in all the thousands of tons of free food and supplies

it is a stupid, self-defeating policy to begin with.
No nation on earth has ever fed and supplied those who’ve attacked it (except USA after WW2 in the Marshall Plan, but that was AFTER the Nazis surrendered, not while they were still fighting...)

[Bigg Red]

Yep