The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (“GHF”) aka “Global Humanitarian Fund” is a private corporation registered on November 11, 2024 as a “charitable nonprofit” in Delaware. The Boston Consulting Group (“BCG”) played a large role in its creation under a multi-million dollar contract, reportedly working alongside former U.S. intelligence and defense officials and private entrepreneurs, and in close consultation with Israel. GHF is supported by armed private contractors from Safe Reach Solutions (“SRS”) and UG Solutions to provide logistics and security. GHF’s distribution hubs, which are primarily located in the southern part of Gaza, are operated in close coordination with Israeli forces. The need for humanitarian aid for Palestinians in Gaza arises from Israel’s 17 year blockade and its U.S.-backed 21-month military assault in which it has made good on its promise to deny the basic necessities for life - including food and water - to the 2.2. million Palestinians in Gaza, creating the conditions for mass starvation and famine, alongside the killing of more than 57,000, injury to more than 134,000, and forcible displacement - often repeatedly - of nearly the entire population.

Prior to commencing operations, GHF’s militarized distribution model was heavily criticized both for failing to comply with fundamental principles of humanitarian operations and for contributing to international law violations such as forcible transfer while doing little to stave off the Israel-created mass starvation and famine. On the eve of its beginning operations, GHF’s executive director, Jake Wood, announced his resignation, stating: “It is clear that it is not possible to implement this plan while also strictly adhering to the humanitarian principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality, and independence, which I will not abandon.” Although GHF’s purported purpose is to supply humanitarian aid to Gaza, GHF’s militarized distribution hubs have been developed and are intended as a replacement for the prior UN-run system that had 400 distribution sites across the entire Gaza Strip, which Israel is notoriously blocking from resuming operations despite widespread starvation.

GHF began operating in the Gaza Strip on May 26, 2025, after an 11-week period when Israel blocked all humanitarian aid from entering Gaza. The very next day, Israel shot and injured at least 50 people and killed three near GHF’s distribution site in Rafah’s Tal al-Sultan neighborhood in Southern Gaza. That loss of Palestinian life and serious injury has continued on a nearly daily basis since GHF began its militarized “aid” operations, with estimates ranging from 550 to more than 700 Palestinians killed and more than 4,000 injured seeking food aid at GHF hubs. American contractors working with GHF at the distribution sites use live ammunition and stun grenades; an internal report by SRS found that aid seekers were injured during 31% of the distributions in a two-week period in June. Israeli officers and soldiers reported that they were ordered to fire on unarmed Palestinians seeking aid at GHF sites - and that Israeli forces did, in fact, shoot and kill unarmed Palestinians at GHF’s “chaotic” hubs.

On June 3, 2025, when asked about the high number of Palestinians being killed while accessing aid at GHF hubs, the State Department spokesperson, Tammy Bruce, claimed that GHF is an “independent organization,” “that it is not our project,” and repeated three times that it “does not receive U.S. government funding.” On June 26, 2025, the State Department announced that the United States had “approved funding for $30 million to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation,” noting GHF’s operations aligned with President Trump’s vision for “creative solutions” to Gaza aid distribution. There are media reports that the United States had already provided at least an additional $7 million to GHF before the announcement of $30 million.

CCR submitted a FOIA request to the Department of State and U.S. Agency for International Development seeking information related to the $30 million and $7 million taxpayer-funded payments to GHF by DOS; any other payments made by the DOS to GHF and U.S. contractors supporting its operations; and GHF’s creation, mission, scope of work, performance, vetting for funding, and operations including but not limited to the killing at least 613 Palestinians and injury to at least 4,000 more in Gaza at or near GHF distribution hubs since it commenced its operations. CCR is deeply concerned about the United States' overall endorsement of and financial support for GHF’s operations, and its encouragement that other governments likewise support GHF instead of the long-recognized and respected U.N.-backed humanitarian aid delivery scheme. CCR is also concerned about whether there is any link between aid distribution through GHF and President Trump’s earlier suggestion that Gaza be cleansed of Palestinians and redeveloped not for Palestinians, but as the “Gaza Riviera” for investors. CCR seeks this information in order to better understand the rationales and motives behind DOS and USAID’s decision to provide GHF with tens of millions of U.S. tax-payer dollars in the face of a campaign of carnage, danger and humiliation of Palestinians in desperate need of a humanitarian assistance in Gaza because of Israel’s policies.