News - Middle East: Israeli lawmakers say the cabinet is behind a shadowy network of US humanitarian and mercenary organizations, including the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).

They say a broader plan is underway to ethnically cleanse northern Gaza by forcing the starving population into concentration camp-like hubs.

On May 27, Israeli forces opened fire on stampeding crowds of hungry Palestinians who rushed to receive aid from the GHF.

Founded in Switzerland in February, the GHF serves as an umbrella for a network of private mercenary firms used by Israel to supplant the role of the United Nations in providing aid to the besieged Palestinian territory.

With no legal standing or formal mandate to operate in Gaza, the GHF now operates at the pleasure of Israel’s military.

The scheme functions behind an endorsement from the administration of US President Donald Trump, and with US mercenary muscle maintaining its so-called distribution centers.

Financial sources of the opaque organization remain a secret to the public, but according to Israeli lawmaker Avigdor Lieberman, the GHF’s mysterious financial angel was, in fact, the Israeli regime.

Lieberman stated on X that the “money for humanitarian aid comes from the Mossad” and the Israeli ministry for military affairs.

Moreover, Yair Lapid, another Israeli legislator, disclosed the regime’s role in funding two “shell companies,” pointing to the GHF and the private mercenary firm Safe Reach Solutions (SRS), which was founded by former CIA field operative Phillip Reilly.

Two former US officials told the Qatari-owned outlet Middle East Eye that Reilly “had won the trust of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and several Israeli businessmen close to him.”

The mentioned events indicate that the Israeli military-intelligence apparatus is effectively laundering massive sums of money through a weaponized aid scheme that forms the linchpin of its plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza.

Based on a leaked internal GHF document, the food distribution centers and residential compounds it was constructing in Gaza could be perceived as “‘concentration camps’ with biometrics.”

The organization appears to be an integral part of the Israeli regime’s ultimate goal of occupying 75% of the Gaza Strip, forcing starving and homeless Palestinians into what its military has branded as “humanitarian islands” designed to “divide and rule” the decimated enclave.

It is also a clear attempt at replacing UNRWA, the United Nations agency, which has been involved in aiding Gaza’s refugee population since 1949, and which the Israeli parliament designated as a “terrorist” organization in 2024.

The GHF’s formation can be traced directly to the Israeli cabinet, which presides over the siege of Gaza, as well as Israeli entrepreneur Liran Tancman, who was described in one report as “a reservist” in the 8200 signals intelligence unit, “who called for using biometric identification systems outside the distribution hubs to vet Palestinian civilians.”

Just a day before the GHF’s planned roll-out in Gaza, the organization’s CEO, Jake Wood, resigned in protest, condemning the group’s failure to uphold “humanitarian principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality.”

Two other GHF officials left the organization following Wood’s resignation, including the GHF’s COO, David Burke, and a Swiss board member, David Kohler.

Leadership of the organization was then passed to John Acree, a former USAID administrator who recently said the “criminal” Trump was giving a “free pass” to Russia.

Following the mayhem on May 27, a network of shady mercenary firms including Safe Reach Solutions (SRS) and UG Solutions started offering high-paying positions to potential mercenaries.

A job listing for UG Solutions appeals to “snipers” with “prior experience in combat zones,” the “highest level of weapons proficiencies,” and “advanced combat skills” who could “operate effectively in high-threat environments.”

Preference would be given to “Special Forces qualified personnel,” as well as “personnel with OSINT/Intelligence Background.”

UG Solutions’ founder, Jameson Govoni, has described himself as a “degenerate from Boston” who “joined the Army as fast as I possibly could to inflict pain on the people who inflicted pain on us.”

The SRS – a partner of the GHF and UG Solutions - first appeared in Gaza in January, when a collection of middle aged mercenaries portrayed in US media as “suburban dads” established a checkpoint along the Netzarim Corridor, an area severing Gaza’s northern and central regions, which the Israeli military has used as a base for abusing and massacring civilians.

An SRS document circulated to potential supporters appealed for “humanitarian partners” to help transform its checkpoint into “an aid distribution point.” Days later, the GHF was founded in Geneva, Switzerland.

A GHF document distributed to the media in early May listed an array of corporate heavy hitters and former US officials as board members, and boasted of partnerships with financial institutions like Goldman Sachs.

Its board included Raisa Sheynberg, a former US Treasury Department official who served on the public policy team of Meta’s original Libra crypto-currency project, and David Beasley, the former South Carolina governor and ex-head of the World Food Program.

Furthermore, Jose Andres, the Spanish celebrity chef and founder of the World Central Kitchen (WCK) and also a former US State Department “culinary ambassador,” slammed the GHF.

“The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has left Palestinians without food. The people that created it are selfish,” Andres stated on X.

Chief among those “selfish” figures would be the former CEO of Andres’ WCK, Nate Mook. Israeli media lists Mook as the founder of the GHF. He was also named as a board member of the group on the document the GHF distributed to the media about its launch.

Despite his condemnation of the GHF, Andres played an early and important role in the project to subvert Gaza’s humanitarian aid system away from the UN, and into line with Israeli objectives.

As The Grayzone reported, Andres oversaw WCK’s effort in 2024 to construct a pier made of the rubble of homes in Gaza, which would have enabled the offloading of aid to kitchens it ran across Gaza in coordination with the Israeli military.

The mysterious chef also defended the Israeli regime’s genocidal war in Gaza when Spain’s then-Minister for Social Rights Ione Belarra charged Israel with genocide in Gaza.

He wrote on social media that Israel was merely “defending its citizens,” declaring that Belarra did “not deserve to be minister.”

In April 2024, the American-supplied Israeli military murdered seven WCK employees in a targeted double-tap strike on their aid convoy.

However, Andres is still seeking friendly collaboration with Israeli occupation authorities, expressing via social media his thanks to the Israeli administrators as recently as May 28.

On May 29, Swiss officials announced that the GHF was violating several laws for foundations registered in Switzerland.

The shadowy organization subsequently announced that it is moving its operations to the US, where it is likely to receive less scrutiny from a Trump administration that endorsed its creation.

Source: Press TV