A Geneva-based NGO is Israel’s answer to aid in Gaza

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, an NGO backed by Israel and the United States, will privatise aid into Gaza. The United Nations has strongly opposed the plan. Israel's plan to implement a controversial US-backed proposal to overhaul aid delivery in Gaza could signal the end of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in the besieged enclave. The plan, officially called the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), also a recently established NGO registered in Geneva, proposes a complete overhaul of aid delivery in Gaza. It would establish humanitarian hubs in the enclave’s south that would be managed, facilitated and secured by private companies and military contractors – probably American. It would essentially be sidestepping the robust humanitarian aid delivery system built and maintained by UNRWA for decades. It comes after Israel imposed a complete blockade on aid into Gaza following the collapse of the temporary truce between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas.