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Concentration camps and the road to exile: Gaza as a laboratory of
privatized genocide
Manu Pineda
July 10, 2025
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Through the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, mercenarization and concentration
camps in the Zionist strategy of forced displacement are laid bare.

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   laboratory of privatized genocide]
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   What looks like “relief” is actually a privatized machine of ethnic
   cleansing (Illustrated by Zeinab al-Hajj; Al Mayadeen English)

The creation of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) in February 2025
marks a perverse milestone in the weaponization of aid. Under the guise of
food distribution, this organization, run by former US intelligence agents
and mercenaries, acts as a logistical arm of an Israeli plan to turn Gaza
into an archipelago of 21st-century concentration camps. Its ultimate goal:
to enforce the “voluntary emigration” of the Palestinian population through
hunger, the militarization of survival, and colonial demographic
reengineering.
Anatomy of a humanitarian farce

a) Origins and architecture of control

GHF is registered in Delaware (USA) and Geneva (Switzerland), with opaque
funding—including $100 million from an alleged anonymous European donor—and
leadership closely linked to the military-industrial complex. Its first
director, Jake Wood, a former US Marine sniper and founder of Team Rubicon,
resigned, citing the impossibility of operating under principles of
“humanity, neutrality, and independence.” He was replaced by Johnnie Moore,
a Zionist evangelist and close ally of Donald Trump, while figures like
David Petraeus (former CIA director) endorse the model from advisory boards.

b) Militarization of aid

Aid distribution is carried out by two private security companies:

• Safe Reach Solutions (SRS), headed by Phil Reilly, a former CIA officer
in Afghanistan.

• UG Solutions, led by Jameson Govoni, a former Green Beret and author of
explicitly anti-Arab publications.

Both companies recruit special forces veterans at $1,100 per day, equipped
with M4 rifles, grenades, and drones. “Security” at aid centers includes
facial recognition and biometric screening, often resulting in arbitrary
arrests.
21st-century concentration camps: Design and violence

a) Engineered displacement

GHF has set up between 4 and 8 distribution centers exclusively in southern
Gaza, while "Israel" systematically bombed the north. This forces 2.3
million people to travel up to 40 kilometers under military fire to receive
18 kg food boxes, once every two weeks. As one Israeli officer told *Haaretz,
*“Our way of communicating is through gunfire. We open fire […] if anyone
tries to queue up hundreds of meters away.”

b) Statistics of terror

Between May and June 2025, GHF reported:

• 549 Palestinians killed and 4,066 injured near its centers.

• 39 disappeared after being flagged by facial recognition systems.

• On June 3 alone, 27 people were killed and 127 were injured trying to
access aid in the so-called “hunger lines", while Israeli drones fired
shells at the crowds.
Mercenarization: Surveillance capitalism applied to Genocide

a) Privatizing ethnic cleansing

GHF outsources war crimes to private corporations, absolving the Israeli
regime of direct responsibility. The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR)
warned: “The Foundation is complicit in crimes against humanity by
coordinating operations with the Israeli army, which is using starvation as
a method of warfare.”

b) Technology for apartheid

Companies like Palantir (founded by Peter Thiel) provide data analysis
software to identify Palestinians “potentially affiliated with Hamas.” Aid
becomes blackmail: only those who relocate and renounce political
resistance are allowed to eat.
Zionist continuity: From Plan Dalet to the GHF

The GHF model is not new, it is an updated version of the Zionist colonial
project:

1. Plan Dalet (1948): Ethnic cleansing through massacres and expulsions.

2.1967 occupation: Checkpoints and territorial fragmentation.

3. GHF (2025): Mercenary-run concentration camps disguised as “aid".

Israeli ministers such as Bezalel Smotrich have been explicit: “Gaza will
be destroyed; civilians will be sent south […] and from there, they will
emigrate to third countries.”

GHF functions as the terminal mutation of colonialism: privatized,
digitized, commodified, and packaged for Western donors.
International complicity and silence

a) United States: Direct sponsor

The US State Department is considering allocating $500 million to GHF.
Mercenaries operate with American passports. Trump promoted the plan as
part of his “Gaza Riviera”, transforming Gaza into a de-Palestinized zone
for regional investment.

b) Europe: Complicit by omission

While Switzerland expelled GHF for “militarizing aid", the European Union
continues to avoid sanctioning "Israel", despite the 57,000 Palestinians
killed directly by bombs, 70% of them women and children. Additional
horrors include:

• Over 77,000 children at risk of death by starvation.

• WHO warnings of irreversible generational damage.

c) United Nations: Induced and Imposed Powerlessness

While agencies like UNRWA are undermined through baseless accusations, GHF
gains ground. Jan Egeland (Norwegian Refugee Council) put it clearly: “They
want to replace a universal system with militarized aid that rewards
displacement.”
Gaza as a necrocapitalist laboratory

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation embodies the most advanced phase of the
Ben-Gurion plan: “We must expel the Arabs and take their place […] using
force if necessary.”

Now, survival is a privilege managed by mercenaries and algorithms.
"Israel" has shifted its apartheid model from West Bank walls to
concentration and extinction camps wrapped in humanitarian branding.

This model sets a global precedent: any state can now outsource ethnic
cleansing to an NGO with rifles. Gaza is not just a tragedy, it is the test
site for a new international order based on privatized dehumanization.
When aid becomes a weapon

The transit and concentration camps proposed by GHF, euphemistically termed
“Humanitarian Transit Areas," are the backbone of a $2 billion plan to
uproot, reprogram, and expel the Palestinian population under the guise of
assistance.

Amid ongoing genocide, presented to the Trump administration and discussed
in the White House, this project seeks not to help but to dismantle
Palestinian sovereignty and consolidate apartheid. Terms like
“deradicalization” and “relocation” are colonial lexicon repackaged as
humanitarian management.

There is no free choice under bombs. No voluntary displacement when the
alternative is death.
The ethical dilemma for the international community

Will we allow philanthropy to become genocide by other means?

Gaza does not need transit zones. Gaza needs justice, self-determination,
and freedom.
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