*Source: TRT World

Israeli Government and Intelligence

The NYT report revealed that the project wasn’t simply built in coordination with Israel, but is “an Israeli brainchild.” The idea was first proposed in late 2023 at “private meetings of like-minded officials, military officers and business people with close ties to the Israeli government” who believed the government lacked a long-term Gaza strategy, the report said. This created “a huge cohort of Israelis with one foot in the military and another in civilian life, blurring the boundary between the two worlds.”

In July 2023, the Washington Post reported GHF had already received $100 million from an unnamed donor. However, two senior members of the Israeli opposition allege that the real source of the funding is the Israeli government, which they claim is concealing its role by operating through US contractors. Although GHF’s operations are said to have cost tens of millions, the aid distributed in Gaza has reportedly consisted of products from Israeli companies, not from international humanitarian sources. Avigdor Lieberman, Israel’s former minister of finance, claimed that the funds for humanitarian aid originate from Mossad and the Ministry of Defence.

US Funding 

A senior official in the US State Department bypassed nine mandatory counterterrorism and anti-fraud protocols to fast-track a $30 million grant to GHF. Jeremy Lewin, formerly with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), approved the funding despite the memo stating that GHF’s proposal failed to meet “minimum technical or budgetary standards.” The June 24 memo came from Kenneth Jackson, also a former DOGE member now serving as acting deputy administrator at USAID. Both men have overseen the agency’s downsizing and its partial integration into the State Department.

Lewin reportedly overruled 58 concerns flagged by USAID experts who sought corrections in GHF’s application before funding could proceed. The approval came just five days after GHF submitted its proposal on June 19 2025. In a June 25 email obtained by Reuters, Lewin urged quick disbursement, writing, “Strong Admin support for this one,” and pushing for the funds to be released “ASAP.” Lewin noted he had coordinated with aides to Trump’s Gaza envoy, Steve Witkoff, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s office, acknowledging the move would be controversial. “I’m taking the bullet on this one,” he wrote.

The State Department defended the decision, citing legal authority to bypass standard procedures during emergencies to meet urgent humanitarian needs. It stated that GHF would still face “rigorous oversight” under enhanced control and reporting requirements.

“Anonymous” Western European governments funding GHF

After months of almost complete secrecy about the funding sources of GHF, on August 15 2025, in a Channel 4 interview, the spokesperson for GHF Chapin Fay informed that besides the US government funds of USD 30 million, the bulk of the funding came from Western European countries. These states asked GHF “to keep this private”. This may be in addition to Israeli funding of USD 280 million, which both Israel and GHF deny exists. Considering that according to Fay, GHF spent some 2 million USD per day, the US administration only funded the equivalent of 15 days. Fay assured in the same interview that GHF had funding available until the end of the year. According to this information, it seems Western European public money was ‘anonymously’ funding a large amount of the operations of this genocide tool.

That European governments secretly misappropriated potentially hundreds of millions of Euros of public money to funnel them without any oversight to a genocidal foundation is not only complicity in war crimes and genocide. It dismantles the basic principles of humanitarian aid, the role of the United Nations system, and makes, once more, a mockery of European democracy.  

Nothing justifies funding and cooperation with a paramilitary force that has turned aid into a death trap.