Hamas, the State Department disclosed in a June 30 cable sent from the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem, has "formally placed bounties" on U.S. and Palestinian workers with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a joint U.S.-Israeli aid effort formed in February to replace the Hamas-friendly United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). "U.N. entities and NGOs smeared GHF and refused to work with GHF despite the success on the ground and the reality that much of the assistance they had provided into Gaza had been stolen by and directly or indirectly benefited Hamas," the State Department cable reads. Intelligence reports Israel recently provided to the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem confirmed that "most of the humanitarian assistance sent into Gaza since the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023 through U.N. entities and NGOs was not going directly to civilians but instead being taken and looted by Hamas and sold on the black market, providing an enormous financial windfall for Hamas," according to the cable.
Author: Adam Kredo
Published at: 2025-07-07 21:00:06
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