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<div class="gmail-domain-border"></div><h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Trump\u2019s \u201caid\u201d boss oversees lethal food distribution in Gaza</h1>
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<span class="gmail-field gmail-field-author"><a href="https://electronicintifada.net/people/michael-f-brown">Michael F. Brown</a></span>
<span class="gmail-field gmail-field-blog"><a href="https://electronicintifada.net/blog/rights-and-accountability">Rights and Accountability</a></span>
<span class="gmail-field gmail-field-publication-date"><span class="gmail-date-display-single">14 June 2025</span></span></p>
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<span><img src="https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2025-06/130625-ghf-related-injury.jpg?itok=yRZ-bzNt&timestamp=1749854255" width="467" height="311" alt="A Palestinian child rests in a hospital bed with tubes connected to his abdomen and nose" title="" class="gmail-moz-reader-block-img" style="margin-right: 25px;"></span><p>A
Palestinian child rests in the Nasser Medical Complex after being shot
in the abdomen by Israeli occupation forces while seeking food at a Gaza
Humanitarian Foundation \u201cdeath trap.\u201d</p><small>
<span>SIPA/Newscom</span></small><p>From 1-3 June, the Israeli military <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/04/middleeast/israel-military-gaza-aid-shooting-intl-invs">fired</a>
on Palestinians in Gaza desperately trying to access food irresponsibly
supplied by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. In recent days, these
areas have been <a href="https://x.com/SanaSaeed/status/1932548653454962974">described</a> as being a \u201cfood death trap.\u201d</p>
<p>The Foundation, headed by a pro-Trump religious and political
operative, works in close association with the very military carrying
out the genocide and starvation policies in Gaza. Approximately <a href="https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1933238283841990847">250 Palestinians</a> have been <a href="https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1932533953874821567">killed</a> in less than three weeks \u2013 \u201cshot or shelled by Israeli troops\u201d \u2013 while attempting to secure GHF food.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, GHF\u2019s new leader, Rev. Johnnie Moore, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/world/middleeast/israel-johnnie-moore-gaza-humanitarian-foundation.html">formerly</a> of the evangelical Liberty University of <a href="https://www.liberty.edu/champion/2022/02/28/in-pursuit-of-peace-dr-falwell-sr-prayed-for-and-befriended-israel/">Jerry Falwell, Sr.</a> and Jerry Falwell, Jr., declared in the headline of his <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/theres-way-aid-gaza-i-know-my-foundation-helped-deliver-7-million-meals-without-incident">Fox News op-ed</a> on 4 June that his organization had carried out its aid mission \u201cwithout incident.\u201d Moore proudly <a href="https://x.com/JohnnieM/status/1930330190846276056">circulated</a> the op-ed via his X account.</p>
<p>This is shameless propaganda removed from the <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/04/middleeast/israel-military-gaza-aid-shooting-intl-invs">facts as later conveyed by CNN</a> about Palestinian deaths near GHF sites. His foundation is complicit in a vile and deadly <em>Hunger Games</em> type of distribution of food aid.</p>
<p>US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, a <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-06-03/ty-article/.premium/evangelical-leader-close-to-trump-netanyahu-named-new-director-of-gaza-aid-fund/00000197-36b9-dd58-add7-37fb0d5f0000">friend</a> of Moore\u2019s, sided with GHF in denying the organization\u2019s culpability and <a href="https://il.usembassy.gov/statement-on-media-misinformation-on-gaza/">accused</a> <em>The New York Times</em>, CNN and Associated Press of false reporting about the incident.</p>
<p>\u201cReckless and irresponsible reporting by major US news outlets,\u201d he
asserted, is \u201ccontributing to the anti-Semitic climate that has resulted
in the murder of two young people at an Israeli Embassy event in
Washington last month and the attempted murder and terror attack on a
group of pro-Israel demonstrators in Colorado on Sunday.\u201d With evidence
mounting of GHF complicity in Palestinian deaths, Huckabee has not
walked back his comments.</p>
<p>Notably, Huckabee had a <a href="https://x.com/itamarbengvir/status/1933144448172442072">friendly meeting</a> with fascist Israeli ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir on Thursday just hours before Israel\u2019s strikes on Iran.</p>
<p>Huckabee tweeted: \u201cGlad to greet Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich
and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.\u201d He claimed they had
been \u201cridiculously sanctioned by five nations\u201d \u2013 referring to the <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8xgk1ek19lo">action</a>
recently taken by Britain, Australia, Norway, Canada and New Zealand \u2013
and termed it \u201coutrageous hypocrisy\u201d despite the settler violence they
are promoting in the West Bank and the ethnic cleansing they seek in
Gaza.</p>
<p>Moore\u2019s dismissal of the Palestinian deaths is unsurprising as he has
long been engaged in propaganda intended to ensure the most violent
response possible against Hamas and consequently Palestinians in Gaza.
Francesca Albanese, <a href="https://www.ohchr.org/en/special-procedures/sr-palestine/francesca-albanese">special rapporteur</a>
on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied
since 1967 and a guest Thursday on The Electronic Intifada livestream,
has <a href="https://x.com/FranceskAlbs/status/1933165476441358660">referred</a> to GHF as a \u201ccriminal enterprise.\u201d</p>
<p>The Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL), a Quaker lobbying group, has <a href="https://www.fcnl.org/updates/2025-06/gaza-humanitarian-foundation-ghf-and-weaponization-aid">warned</a>
that GHF \u201cmilitarizes aid.\u201d An FCNL document by Hassan El-Tayyab, the
group\u2019s legislative director for Middle East policy, notes: \u201cGHF is run
by armed contractors. This violates the humanitarian principles of
neutrality, independence and impartiality. Even GHF\u2019s own executive
director, Jake Wood, resigned in protest on May 25, saying that it could
not work in a way that adhered to \u2018humanitarian principles.\u2019\u201d</p>
<p>Nevertheless, the US State Department may <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-mulls-giving-millions-controversial-gaza-aid-foundation-sources-say-2025-06-06/">provide</a> GHF with $500 million through USAID, an agency the Trump administration decimated and folded into the State Department.</p>
<p>The Center for Constitutional Rights has <a href="https://ccrjustice.org/home/press-center/press-releases/gaza-humanitarian-foundation-potentially-liable-aiding-israel-s-war">notified</a>
GHF of \u201cits potential legal liability for complicity in Israel\u2019s war
crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide against Palestinians.
Unlike the United Nations-run system that it was designed to replace in
Gaza, GHF coordinates its operations closely with the Israeli
government.\u201d</p>
<h2>Moore\u2019s propaganda</h2>
<p>On 7 October 2023, the day of the Hamas-led attack against Israel
that resulted in the deaths of more than 1,000 Israeli civilians and
soldiers, Moore <a href="https://x.com/JohnnieM/status/1710771193861595564">tweeted</a> that \u201cHamas is ISIS.\u201d Yet less than two years later, far right Israeli politician Avigdor Lieberman has <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-06-11/ty-article-magazine/.premium/whats-wrong-how-israel-trained-and-armed-an-isis-linked-gazan-crime-militia/00000197-5aa3-deed-a9bf-5fef7d990000">accused</a>
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of arming ISIS in Gaza \u2013 and he
wasn\u2019t referring to Hamas being ISIS, but to groups opposed to Hamas.</p>
<p>Moore, soon to be a <a href="https://snfagora.jhu.edu/about-snf-agora/mission-and-impact/">2025-26 Agora fellow</a> at Johns Hopkins University, <a href="https://x.com/JohnnieM/status/1931771874028962070">claims</a>
that GHF is \u201clearning more every day,\u201d but at what cost? His
organization is replacing groups that better know how to do this work
and Palestinians are being killed as a result.</p>
<p>He goes so far as to <a href="https://x.com/JohnnieM/status/1928453152069636504">accuse</a>
the United Nations of joining \u201ca terrorist-led BOYCOTT of an initiative
of the UNITED STATES to give away food to Gazans in a way which doesn\u2019t
allow the aid to be controlled, stolen, sold and used to prolong the
war. The UN should be cooperating with America.\u201d He simply disregards
that the US initiative has resulted in scores of dead Palestinians.</p>
<p>Lieberman also <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-05-29/ty-article/.premium/over-140-million-a-month-the-secret-source-funding-gaza-humanitarian-aid/00000197-171f-de0d-a7f7-b77f347c0000">contends</a> the initiative is being funded by Mossad, apartheid Israel\u2019s spy and international assassination organization.</p>
<p>According to Lieberman, \u201cThe money for the humanitarian aid is coming
from the Mossad and the defense ministry \u2013 hundreds of millions of
dollars at the expense of Israeli citizens.\u201d</p>
<p>Moore, well aware of his more capable UN rival, has repeatedly
threatened funding cuts, \u201chistorically tough\u201d as he puts it, against the
UN if it doesn\u2019t cooperate with US complicity in the Gaza genocide. In
his view, the previous system was \u201cprofanely corrupt\u201d and, putting his <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/world/middleeast/israel-johnnie-moore-gaza-humanitarian-foundation.html">public relations</a>
background to use, has asserted: \u201cSurely, these old US and EU-funded
humanitarian organizations won\u2019t let people starve in exchange for being
\u2018right\u2019 when they know what they have done hasn\u2019t worked and has, in
fact, made a terrible war worse?\u201d
</p>
In February, Moore <a href="https://x.com/JohnnieM/status/1886973391627776342">praised</a>
President Donald Trump for his call to ethnically cleanse Gaza,
colonize it and move large numbers of Palestinians to tracts of land in
Jordan and Egypt.
<p>A man with such profoundly anti-Palestinian views should be nowhere near this job.</p>
<p>Moore <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/06/12/gaza-humanitarian-foundation-continues-work-follow-deadly-hamas-attack/">accused</a> Hamas of killing eight of GHF\u2019s Palestinian workers earlier this week, though <em>The Washington Post</em> <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/11/gaza-ghf-hamas-attack-killed/">noted</a> that GHF \u201cdid not offer evidence.\u201d</p>
<p>The GHF leader <a href="https://x.com/JohnnieM/status/1933013797830304172">asserted</a> on X, \u201cThere is good and evil in this world. What we are doing is good and what Hamas did to these Gazans is absolute evil.\u201d</p>
<p>He did not use similar language to classify the killing of some <a href="https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1933238283841990847">250 Palestinians</a> by the Israeli military while seeking GHF aid or for the abuse <a href="https://zeteo.com/p/exclusive-american-security-contractor">reportedly</a> meted out by GHF mercenaries.</p>
<p>Moore also sought to escalate this into a religious war when he <a href="https://x.com/JohnnieM/status/1933013797830304172">added</a>:
\u201cWhile GHF is not a religious organization, I am a religious Christian
and I especially draw on my faith in moments like these.\u201d</p>
<p>He cited the word of Apostle Paul \u201cto the Christians being brutally
tortured by the Roman Empire two thousand years ago: \u2018Soon the God of
peace will crush Satan underneath our feet.\u2019 Romans 16:20.\u201d</p>
<p>This claim is made as he abets a genocide in Gaza and transforms food
aid into a deadly dash exposed to Israeli gunfire. Chef José Andrés,
whose own employees have been <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/how-world-central-kitchen-serves-israels-genocidal-agenda">killed</a> in Gaza by the Israeli military, is correct that humanitarian workers <a href="https://x.com/chefjoseandres/status/1933232458419339566">should not be targeted</a>.</p>
<p>Yet it is also the case that humanitarian workers should not
collaborate with an organization working in conjunction with an
occupying army that is shooting at food-seeking survivors of war crimes
and genocide. This is unprecedented territory in Gaza, all intended to
exclude the United Nations and the UN agency for Palestine refugees
(UNRWA) and to deny access to established effective aid organizations.
More broadly, the effort seeks to foreclose on the rights of Palestinian
refugees whose ancestral lands are just a few miles away across the
Gaza boundary.</p>
<h2>War at home?</h2>
<p>In a <a href="https://zeteo.com/p/the-imperial-boomerang-lands-in-los">case</a> of \u201cimperial boomerang,\u201d Trump, not content with terrorizing Palestinians with words and bombs and now <a href="https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/lcl/date/2025-06-12/segment/01">failing</a>
to prevent Israel from attacking Iran, is flexing authoritarian
policies against Americans and undocumented migrants. He is threatening
protesters in the so-called majority-minority city of Los Angeles,
California \u2013 part of a dissident region of the country \u2013 with the <a href="https://x.com/USNorthernCmd/status/1932221570258194752">US military</a>. Mexican territory, including California, was <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070503064503/http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/gadsden/9331">purchased</a> by the US for a scant $15 million via coercive pressure at the end of the Mexican-American war in 1848.</p>
<p>Ironically, deputy White House chief of staff <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/michael-f-brown/email-2007-ties-trump-adviser-stephen-miller-neo-nazi-richard-spencer">Stephen Miller</a>, who does not recognize Israel\u2019s occupation of Palestinian territory, has <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/us/la-protests-mexican-flags-republican-reaction.html">said</a> that \u201cLos Angeles is occupied territory,\u201d disparaging foreign flags meant to show pride in heritage. Trump <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/10/trump-administration-los-angeles-national-guard">stated</a>
on Truth Social: \u201cA once great American City, Los Angeles, has been
invaded and occupied by Illegal Aliens and Criminals. Now violent,
insurrectionist mobs are swarming and attacking our Federal Agents to
try and stop our deportation operations \u2013 But these lawless riots only
strengthen our resolve.\u201d</p>
<p>He is <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5344361-hagel-concerns-national-guard-deployment/">courting</a> another Kent State massacre where National Guard troops killed four student protesters and observers in 1970.
</p>
Trump has planned a highly unusual <a href="https://www.axios.com/local/washington-dc/2025/06/10/counterprotests-june-14-military-parade">military parade</a>
for Saturday in Washington, DC. In a tirade Tuesday against free speech
and peaceable assembly, he declared, \u201cIf there\u2019s any protester wants to
come out, they will be met with very big force.\u201d
<p>The president added, \u201cFor those people that want to protest, they
will be met with very big force. And I haven\u2019t even heard about a
protest.\u201d</p>
<p>He also <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-fort-bragg-military-republican-civil-war-rcna212215">incited</a> young soldiers against his political enemies during a speech Tuesday at Fort Bragg in North Carolina.</p>
<p>Trump\u2019s possible use of US Marines against American protesters should
show the world that this president is a menace not just to people
around the world, and particularly to Palestinians whose genocide he is
abetting like his predecessor, but at home as well.</p> <h3><br></h3></div></div></div></div></div></div>