USAID, the UN, and Hamas Team Up to Stop Gaza Humanitarian Fund
When the Real Enemy Is a Box of Food: The War on GHF
CNN just published what it clearly intended to be a “damning exposé against Gaza Humanitarian fund.” It revealed that internal USAID officials during the Biden administration had strongly advised against funding a little-known group called the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), citing concerns over oversight, operational capacity, and even reputational risk. A 14-page document obtained by CNN, dismissed GHF’s aid proposal as “abysmal.” From the outside, it looked like a classic case of bureaucratic accountability—except for one glaring omission.
While the Biden administration was throwing billions into Gaza’s black hole, and turned the U.S. into one of the largest sponsors of Islamism around the world, a Trump administration sought to do something different. In June 2024, Secretary of State Marco Rubio fast-tracked a $30 million grant to GHF. It was one of the only grants designed to bypass Hamas entirely. As of last week, the $30M had not yet been disbursed. State Department says GHF must fulfill new conditions to receive funds. The U.S. may increase funding if GHF operates “safely,” officials reportedly told CNN.
GHF has done what no other international body has managed to do in Gaza: deliver nearly 70 million meals, for free, directly to Palestinian civilians. No UN giving the food to Hamas. No Hamas taxation. No glorified terror-front “civil society” partners. Just food. Delivered. Efficiently. Without political games.
And that is exactly why GHF has become a target—not of Israel, not of ordinary Palestinians—but of Hamas, the United Nations, and before the Trump administration, USAID itself.
Since becoming operational, GHF has disrupted the Gaza aid cartel—a tightly controlled system in which Hamas taxes every truckload, the UN manages every headline, and international NGOs compete to stay ideologically compliant. GHF threatens that cartel. It offers a working alternative. It breaks the illusion that the only way to help Palestinians is to fund their jailers. That’s why it had to be discredited, first through internal memos, and then through a media campaign.
The real scandal isn’t GHF. It’s USAID—and the corruption, ideology, and cowardice that define it under the Biden administration. Between October 7, 2023 and November 2024, USAID sent a staggering $2.4 billion into Gaza. Not to apolitical humanitarian channels. Not to civilian-focused partners. But through the same compromised networks—UNRWA and Hamas-affiliated NGOs—that have enabled a terror state to masquerade as a victim society.
That success is precisely why USAID tried to stop it. Meanwhile, on the ground in Gaza, the cost of that sabotage is being paid in blood.
In the past two weeks, Hamas has openly threatened GHF workers. It hasn’t stopped there. At least a dozen local aid workers affiliated with GHF have been murdered by Hamas operatives. In a separate incident, two American aid workers were injured in an attack by Hamas fighters while attempting to distribute food.
And yet, there has been no condemnation from the United Nations. No urgent press release from Amnesty International. No tweets from Human Rights Watch. No tearful op-eds from Samantha Power. In the world of humanitarian politics, it seems terrorism only counts when it can be blamed on Israel.
To the contrary, the efforts from GHF are condemned, Francesca Albanese called it “Essential to Israel’s Genocide,” yes feeding people is a crime, according to the UN.
As if coordinated, a new phase of the campaign to destroy GHF began just days ago—this time led by Reuters. The wire service published an inflammatory story claiming that GHF was involved in building “concentration camps” in Gaza, based on an ambiguous PowerPoint presentation they claim came from the organization. What Reuters failed to mention is that GHF had already denied the claim before the story was published. No matter. The headline ran anyway, the entire world repeated the claims. The narrative was too valuable to fact-check.
The accusation is not only false—it’s grotesque. It cynically invokes Holocaust imagery to smear the only group actually feeding Palestinian civilians at scale. It’s not journalism. It’s disinformation, deliberately deployed to discredit a group that threatens the status quo.
Let’s be clear: the only people trying to dismantle GHF are Hamas, the UN and the media class that props them up. They are not doing this because GHF is ineffective—they are doing it because GHF is too effective. It has exposed them all. Including an entire UberEats operation, delivering food straight to Hamas leaders’ homes.
Meanwhile, GHF just successfully completed a pilot of its new community distribution program that is getting food directly to people in need - safely, without interference, and where they live. This is an efficient kind of of Uber Eats, not the one the UN was operating, delivering food to Hamas terrorists.
Hamas wants GHF gone because it threatens their control. The UN wants it gone because it threatens their monopoly. USAID din’’t want it because it would have exposed the failure of their billion-dollar programs. And Western journalists and “human rights” groups want it gone because feeding people goes against their narrative.
GHF has proven something dangerous to this entire ecosystem: that it is possible to feed Palestinians without empowering Hamas. That success is revolutionary. And that’s why it has to be destroyed—by any means necessary.
Ask yourself: Why does no one care when Hamas murders aid workers? Why do UN officials fall silent when Americans are attacked by the very regime they help fund? Why are reporters willing to run unverified slander against a group that’s saving lives—just because it doesn’t fit the narrative?
The answer is brutal: they don’t care if Palestinians eat. They care if Hamas survives.
If humanitarian aid can function without Hamas, without UN branding, and without ideological loyalty to a failing system—then the justification for that system collapses. And with it, the careers, funding streams, and political narratives of hundreds of powerful people and institutions.
That’s what this is really about.
GHF is not the problem. It is the proof that everything we’ve been told about Gaza aid is a lie. That billions were never needed. That the UN was never a necessary partner. That “humanitarian coordination” was always a scam.
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