From the moment the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) was first publicly discussed, Andrew Fox of the Henry Jackson Society wrote last month in an in-depth report, “Hamas has regarded it as a direct threat to its interests”.
On 26 May 2025, as the GHF, the US-Israeli aid distribution scheme that bypasses a proscribed terror organisation and reduces its control over the civilian population, opened its first centres, Hamas, Fox noted, condemned the organisation as an “agent of the occupation” and warned Palestinians not to cooperate. “Anyone who accepts their assistance will pay the price, and we will take the necessary measures”, they said. In short, Hamas is threatened by this new operating model and pledged to do everything in its power to see it fail.
As Michael Starr, a journalist who just returned from IDF reserve duty securing the area around a GHF safe distribution site (SDS) in the south of the Strip reported in an article, though the work of his unit is extremely complex, troops guarding the sites take serious precautions to avoid harming innocent civilians, and that the libels of trigger happy soldiers taking aim at starving Palestinians is completely divorced from reality.
The British media’s one-sided, highly critical coverage of the GHF has been clear from the start. Most outlets routinely promote unsubstantiated claims by the Hamas-controlled health ministry accusing the IDF of killing ‘innocent Palestinians in queue for food’, while ignoring evidence of Hamas’s efforts to sabotage the aid distribution system, which has included armed attacks at or near GHF sites.