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US Consulting Firm Ends Contract with Israeli-Backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation Amid Mounting Criticism: Report </h1>
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<p>Gaza (Quds News Network)- Boston Consulting Group, which helped
design and run the business operations of the Gaza Humanitarian
Foundation, a controversial US-backed group assigned to deliver aid to
Gazans, has withdrawn its team from the program amid mounting criticism
and reports of mass killings of starving aid seekers by Israeli forces.</p>
<p>According to a Tuesday <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/06/03/gaza-humanitarian-fund-bcg/" target="_blank">report</a>
by The Washington Post, the leading US management consulting firm hired
last fall to help design the program and run its business operations
withdrew its team operating on the ground in Israel. </p>
<p>A spokesperson for Boston Consulting Group (BCG) said the company had
terminated its contract with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) and
placed one of the senior partners leading the project on leave, pending
an internal review.</p>
<p>The Post, citing three people closely connected to both the GHF and
BCG, said that it would be difficult for the foundation to continue to
function without the consultants who helped create it. </p>
<p>In addition to helping develop the initiative in close coordination
with Israel, BCG set the prices for paying and equipping the array of
contractors who built four distribution points in southern Gaza and to
deliver the aid.</p>
<p>\u201cThey are actually making the wheels turn,\u201d said one of the people involved of BCG\u2019s involvement.</p>
<p>A spokesperson for BCG stated that the firm had provided \u201cpro bono\u201d
support to the operation and will not get paid for any of the work it
has done on behalf of the foundation. </p>
<p>Another person familiar with its operations contradicted the firm\u2019s
account, saying that BCG had presented monthly invoices of more than $1
million.</p>
<p>According to Gaza\u2019s Government Media Office on Tuesday, <a href="https://qudsnen.co/mass-death-traps-and-bloodshed-102-starving-aid-seekers-killed-by-israeli-forces-near-u-s-backed-distribution-points-in-gaza-media-office/" target="_blank">102 starving Gazans</a>
have been killed and 490 others injured by Israeli fire near GHF aid
distribution points in southern Gaza\u2019s Rafah and the so-called Netzarim
Corridor in central Gaza since Israel\u2019s new aid mechanism was launched
on May 27.</p>
<p>The Office <a href="https://qudsnen.co/mass-death-traps-and-bloodshed-102-starving-aid-seekers-killed-by-israeli-forces-near-u-s-backed-distribution-points-in-gaza-media-office/" target="_blank">accused</a>
Israel of \u201ca horrific, intentionally repeated crime\u201d, saying it has
been luring starving Palestinians to its US-backed aid distribution
centres and then opening fire on them.</p>
<p>\u201cThe so-called \u2018aid\u2019 distribution centres, which are located in
exposed and dangerous red zones under the control of the occupation
army, have turned into mass bloodbaths, luring starving civilians to
them as a result of the crippling famine and the tightening siege,\u201d the
Office said.</p>
<p>\u201cThey are then deliberately and coldly shot, in a scene that
epitomises the malice of the project and exposes its true objectives,\u201d
it added.</p>
<p>The Office called on \u201cthe United Nations, its Security Council and
human rights organisations to assume their moral and legal
responsibilities, take immediate action, and exert pressure using all
available means to open official crossings without interference or
conditions from the occupation\u201d.</p>
<p>The latest attack occurred early Tuesday morning, when Israeli fire
killed 27 aid seekers and injured 90 others as they waited for food
distribution in the al-Alam area of Rafah.</p>
<p>Drone footage, eyewitness videos, and testimonies from medical teams
in Rafah all confirmed that Israeli forces opened fire directly and
intensively on civilians, with many of the fatalities receiving gunshot
wounds to their head or chest.</p>
<p>On March 2, Israel announced the closure of Gaza\u2019s main crossings,
cutting off food, medical and humanitarian supplies, worsening a
humanitarian crisis for 2.3 million Palestinians, according to reports
by human rights organisations who have accused it of using starvation as
a weapon of war against Palestinains.</p>
<p>An Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report last
month warned that almost a quarter of the civilian population would face
catastrophic levels of food insecurity (IPC Phase Five) in the coming
months.</p>
<p>After more than 80 days of total blockade, starvation, and growing
international outrage, limited aid has allegedly been distributed since
last week by the GHF, a scandal-plagued organization backed by the US
and Israel, created to bypass the UN\u2019s established aid delivery
infrastructure in the Gaza Strip.</p>
<p>Most humanitarian organisations, including the UN, have distanced
themselves from GHF, arguing that the group violates humanitarian
principles by restricting aid to south and central Gaza, requiring
Palestinians to walk long distances to collect aid, and only providing
limited aid, among other critiques.</p>
<p>The UN confirmed that Israel is still blocking food from reaching
starving Palestinians with only a few trucks of aid having reached Gaza
last week.</p>
<p>Doctors Without Borders (MSF) warned that \u201cweaponizing aid in this manner may constitute crimes against humanity.\u201d</p>
<p>\u201cToday\u2019s events have shown once again that this new system of aid
delivery is dehumanising, dangerous and severely ineffective,\u201d Claire
Manera, MSF\u2019s emergency coordinator, said in a statement on Sunday.</p>
<p>\u201cIt has resulted in deaths and injuries of civilians that could have
been prevented. Humanitarian aid must be provided only by humanitarian
organisations who have the competence and determination to do it safely
and effectively,\u201d she added.</p>
<p>Moreover, two senior officials of the foundation resigned in the
first week of its operations. Jake Wood, who resigned as executive
director, said in a statement that the group\u2019s plans could not be
consistent with the \u201chumanitarian principles of humanity, neutrality,
impartiality, and independence.\u201d The chief operating officer, David
Burke, also resigned, according to The Post.</p></div>
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