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                      Israel bans NGOs, the U.S. is handing aid delivery
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                          Army personnel monitor screens displaying maps
                          and imagery of the Gaza Strip during a media
                          tour inside the Civil-Military Coordination
                          Center (CMCC) on November 20, 2025 in Kiryat
                          Gat, Israel. The screen (above left) shows the
                          use of Palantir\u2019s Gaia application, billed as
                          a tool to \u201cbring the battlefield into view.\u201d
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                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Palantir
                      Technologies has a permanent desk at the U.S.-led
                      Civil Military Coordination Center (CMCC)
                      headquarters in southern Israel, three sources
                      from the diplomatic community inside the CMCC told
                      Drop Site News. According to the sources, the
                      artificial intelligence data analytics giant is
                      providing the technological architecture for
                      tracking the delivery and distribution of aid to
                      Gaza.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The
                      presence of Palantir and other corporations\u2014along
                      with recent changes banning non-profits unwilling
                      to give data to Israeli authorities\u2014is creating a
                      situation in which the delivery of aid is taking a
                      backseat to the pursuit of profit, investment, and
                      the training of AI products, experts say.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>\u201cThe
                        United Nations already has a humanitarian
                        architecture in place to step in during crises,
                        abiding by humanitarian principles and grounded
                        in international law,\u201d UN Special Rapporteur for
                        the occupied Palestinian territory Francesca</span><strong>
                      </strong><span>Albanese told Drop Site. \u201cThis
                        profit-driven parallel system involving
                        companies like Palantir, already linked to
                        Israel\u2019s unlawful conduct, can only be regarded
                        as a monstrosity.\u201d</span></p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The
                      CMCC was established by U.S. Central Command
                      (CENTCOM) in October, one week after the so-called
                      ceasefire went into effect in Gaza to \u201cmonitor
                      implementation of the ceasefire\u201d and \u201chelp
                      facilitate the flow of humanitarian, logistical,
                      and security assistance from international
                      counterparts into Gaza.\u201d Last week, at the
                      inaugural summit of the Board of Peace in
                      Washington, D.C., Major General Jasper Jeffers\u2014who
                      was tapped in January to lead the International
                      Stabilization Force in Gaza\u2014announced that the
                      CMCC will serve as the Board of Peace\u2019s
                      operational headquarters.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">According
                      to the sources, a representative from Palantir
                      sits in the CMCC operations room where aid convoys
                      and distributions inside Gaza are monitored
                      through drone surveillance. The representative
                      integrates convoy and distribution-related data
                      into Palantir\u2019s systems, the sources said.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Palantir
                      did not respond to an inquiry from Drop Site on
                      its role in the CMCC or in aid distribution in
                      Gaza. Founded in 2003 by billionaire Peter Thiel
                      with the help of investments from the CIA\u2019s
                      venture capital arm In-Q-Tel, Palantir is known
                      for its work with government agencies, including
                      the U.S. military and Immigration and Customs
                      Enforcement (ICE).</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>In
                        January 2024, three months into Israel\u2019s war on
                        Gaza, Palantir </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/6a9e51b8-b3fe-4c8e-925e-7d4e63f5733f?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        had entered into a \u201cstrategic partnership\u201d with
                        the Israeli military for \u201cwar-related missions.\u201d
                        The company\u2019s board meeting that month in Tel
                        Aviv was held \u201cin solidarity\u201d with Israel,
                        Bloomberg reported. Palantir did not disclose
                        what technologies would be provided to Israel
                        but a year earlier the company introduced its
                        Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP) to help
                        militaries rapidly analyze and identify bombing
                        targets. The company\u2019s technology has been
                        described by a Palantir executive as a way of
                        \u201coptimizing the kill chain.\u201d Palantir\u2019s software
                        has also been used by the Israeli military in
                        several raids in Gaza, </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/8432d04b-fa34-49f2-8210-eb369d089f14?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        style="color: #00058c;text-decoration: none;"
                        moz-do-not-send="true">according</a><span> to a
                        biography of its CEO, \u201cThe Philosopher in the
                        Valley: Alex Karp, Palantir and the Rise of the
                        Surveillance State\u201d by Michael Steinberger.</span></p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>In
                        a June 2025 </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/ac11a55a-e7f2-45ff-bf51-8f3ad53fe1f3?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
                        rel=""
                        style="color: #00058c;text-decoration: none;"
                        moz-do-not-send="true">report</a><span> to the
                        UN Human Rights Council, Albanese found
                        \u201creasonable grounds to believe Palantir has
                        provided automatic predictive policing
                        technology, core defence infrastructure for
                        rapid and scaled-up construction and deployment
                        of military software, and its Artificial
                        Intelligence Platform, which allows real-time
                        battlefield data integration for automated
                        decision-making.\u201d</span></p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The
                      use of Palantir to track aid deliveries to Gaza is
                      of particular concern to observers. \u201cThe
                      distinction between death by drone and delivery of
                      aid is being evaporated while we all sit around
                      the same table,\u201d a source from the diplomatic
                      community who attends CMCC sessions told Drop
                      Site.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Palantir\u2019s
                      two main platforms are Gotham and Foundry.
                      \u201cGotham\u2019s targeting offering supports soldiers
                      with an Al-powered kill chain, seamlessly and
                      responsibly integrating target identification and
                      target effector pairing,\u201d according to the
                      company\u2019s website. Foundry is Palantir\u2019s platform
                      for supply chain management and is billed as a way
                      to \u201cbridge siloed planning and execution
                      processes, optimize inventory management, and help
                      build supply chain resilience for economic and
                      geopolitical uncertainty.\u201d</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>Palantir
                        does not operate its systems in isolated silos.
                        According to the company\u2019s own </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/44a8df33-b9be-42b6-8042-4ac38c5842a8?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
                        rel=""
                        style="color: #00058c;text-decoration: none;"
                        moz-do-not-send="true">documentation</a><span>,
                        \u201cPalantir AIP and Foundry are designed to
                        interoperate with the full range of data, logic,
                        AI, workflow, and security systems.\u201d A feature
                        called \u201cType Mapping\u201d allows data entered into
                        the civilian Foundry system to be instantly
                        synchronized and queried by the military\u2019s
                        Gotham platform.</span></p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">This
                      means that, in theory, information that is being
                      gathered at the CMCC\u2014including from participating
                      governments the UN and NGOs regarding the type of
                      aid being distributed, its distribution locations
                      and systems, and truck convoy routes\u2014could be
                      seamlessly pulled into Gotham\u2019s AI targeting
                      matrix. The same software logic used to track aid
                      at the CMCC could be used to optimize and
                      accelerate lethal airstrikes.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">There
                      is no information available as to whether Gotham
                      and Foundry are the specific products being used
                      to track aid, but publicly available photographic
                      evidence indicates that Palantir\u2019s Gaia\u2014a platform
                      referred to on their website as a tool to \u201cbring
                      the battlefield into view\u201d\u2014is being deployed at
                      the CMCC.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">In
                      an interview with Drop Site on the role of
                      Palantir in Gaza, the economist Yanis Varoufakis,
                      the former Greek Finance Minister and a former
                      member of Greece\u2019s parliament, described an
                      encounter he had with a Palantir representative
                      who had explained to him the benefit the company
                      gained from Gaza. \u201cHe was saying that \u2018as the
                      bombs fell we were having a party,\u2019\u201d Varoufakis
                      said. According to Varoufakis, the Palantir
                      representative explained how the chaos of intense
                      violence in a high-density urban area like Gaza
                      generates substantial data for training their AI
                      models on how humans respond under stress. \u201cThe
                      more bombardment and havoc, the better the
                      training,\u201d Varoufakis said.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">\u201cIt\u2019s
                      one thing to say that companies like Lockheed
                      Martin make money selling F35s to the Israelis,\u201d
                      he said. \u201cThat has been a time-honored way that
                      the military industrial complex has benefited from
                      war and genocide and war crimes.\u201d He continued,
                      \u201cThis is the first instance in history where it is
                      the suffering of a people being subjected to
                      genocide and bombing\u2014the suffering itself\u2014which is
                      adding to the capital of a company which then uses
                      that capital to produce commodities to sell
                      elsewhere.\u201d</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Palantir
                      operates on Oracle\u2019s cloud infrastructure, led by
                      Larry Ellison\u2014a major donor to the Israeli
                      military who also funds the Tony Blair Institute,
                      which has itself consulted on governance
                      mechanisms for Gaza.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The
                      growing use of Palantir and other private sector
                      companies in Gaza comes as the non-profit sector
                      is being systematically squeezed out. As of March
                      1, 2026, Israel will ban dozens of aid groups from
                      operating in Gaza, as well as the West Bank and
                      East Jerusalem, under new registration rules,
                      including prominent NGOs such as Doctors Without
                      Borders, the Norwegian Refugee Council, Oxfam, and
                      Medical Aid for Palestinians.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The
                      new measures require aid groups to register the
                      names and contact information of employees and to
                      provide details about their funding and operations
                      to Israeli authorities. The aid groups said in a
                      joint statement this week that \u201cthe demand to
                      transfer personal data raises acute security and
                      legal risks. It exposes national staff to
                      potential retaliation and undermines established
                      data protection and confidentiality safeguards.\u201d</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">\u201cNGOs
                      are being pushed out of Gaza because aid delivered
                      by humanitarian organizations is based on need and
                      is provided to people wherever they are located,\u201d
                      said an aid worker who spoke to Drop Site on
                      condition of anonymity. \u201cThis doesn\u2019t match the
                      vision of the \u2018New Gaza\u2019 where Palestinians will
                      need to be displaced again into the zones where
                      reconstruction will be permitted and their access
                      to aid will be controlled through screening.\u201d</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Not
                      all NGOs are being pushed out of Gaza. Others\u2014on a
                      list of registered and approved organizations\u2014are
                      expanding their role alongside the private sector.
                      These include Christian groups like Samaritan\u2019s
                      Purse and GAiN, both of whom were involved in the
                      Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), and who
                      sources from the diplomatic community have
                      recently seen gathering in a \u201cprayer circle\u201d at
                      the CMCC.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">These
                      approved NGOs, alongside private firms coordinated
                      through the CMCC like Palantir, stand ready to
                      take over the distribution of aid in Gaza.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">\u201cAid
                      in Gaza has been stripped to bare survival and its
                      future delivery appears to be faith based, profit
                      driven, militarized and certainly not to be
                      delivered by anyone that dares to speak out about
                      what Palestinians are being subjected to,\u201d said a
                      senior aid worker who spoke to Drop Site on
                      condition of anonymity.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Gaza\u2019s
                      experience with private delivery mechanisms has
                      been catastrophic. In May 2025, the U.S. and
                      Israeli-backed GHF was contracted to distribute
                      aid in the enclave. During the four and half
                      months the GHF operated in Gaza, more than 2,600
                      Palestinians seeking food were killed and over
                      19,000 wounded by Israeli forces or security
                      contractors at or near aid distribution sites.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The
                      former headquarters of the GHF, a large
                      warehouse-style building in Kiryat Gat, is now the
                      headquarters of the CMCC.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">As
                      aid groups are being banned, U.S. military
                      contractors are also filling the vacuum. According
                      to sources from the diplomatic community who
                      attend the CMCC, the physical presence of Safe
                      Reach Solutions (SRS), a U.S. military contractor
                      that provided security for the GHF, has recently
                      expanded at the center of the facility, with SRS
                      officials taking up more prominent seating space
                      on the operations floor. The company\u2019s
                      representatives now sit behind name tags in
                      seating that had previously been reserved for UN
                      agencies, the sources said.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">SRS
                      did not respond to an inquiry from Drop Site about
                      its role at the CMCC or in Gaza aid distribution.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">\u201cGiven
                      the precedent of the GHF, which turned aid
                      delivery into a killing machine,\u201d Albanese told
                      Drop Site, \u201cand the grave violations of
                      international law embedded in the so-called peace
                      plan\u2014first and foremost the negation of the
                      Palestinian right to self-determination\u2014the risk
                      that companies and states involved in the CMCC may
                      be complicit in, or even direct perpetrators of,
                      international crimes is real.\u201d</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>Arkel
                        International, a longtime U.S. military
                        contractor, has also had representatives at CMCC
                        briefing sessions, according to the sources
                        inside the center. Arkel recruited drivers from
                        Serbia and Georgia to drive supplies into Gaza
                        for the GHF in 2025, </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/5eecb7ca-3e7b-4a2b-b740-2ca66ec28992?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
                        rel=""
                        style="color: #00058c;text-decoration: none;"
                        moz-do-not-send="true">according</a><span> to
                        Haaretz. At the time, Arkel was represented in
                        Israel by businessman Hezi Bezalel, who has
                        served as honorary consul of Rwanda in Israel.</span></p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The
                      re-emergence of GHF-linked companies, alongside
                      the digital capacity to monitor and monetize the
                      surviving population in Gaza, is now converging
                      with the construction of a new physical
                      infrastructure spearheaded by giant real estate
                      conglomerates. </p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">At
                      last week\u2019s Board of Peace meeting, the
                      reconstruction of Gaza was positioned as a massive
                      financial \u201cunlocking\u201d of a distressed asset.
                      Figures like Yakir Gabay, who built a real estate
                      empire in Germany, envisioned the coastline
                      transformed into a \u201cMediterranean Riviera\u201d
                      featuring 200 hotels and artificial islands. Marc
                      Rowan, a billionaire investor and the CEO of
                      Apollo Global Management, framed the project as
                      the consolidation of Gaza\u2019s \u201cproductive assets\u201d
                      into a \u201cunified structure.\u201d</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">A
                      significant addition to the CMCC\u2019s corporate
                      roster is Terra Firma Capital Partners, which
                      sources confirmed now maintains a permanent
                      presence at the CMCC. Founded by British financier
                      Guy Hands, the firm brings experience in managing
                      massive-scale residential assets. Terra Firma has
                      links to the New Labour era, specifically through
                      Lord John Birt, Tony Blair\u2019s former strategy
                      director, who worked for the company after he left
                      government.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">\u201cThe
                      genocide is entering a new phase. After the
                      destruction of Gaza and the erasure of entire
                      family lines, powerful states are now deciding the
                      fate of the survivors without ever listening to
                      their voices,\u201d Albanese said. </p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">\u201cIf
                      Gaza is not to become a capitalist
                      techno-dystopia, the time to act is now. States
                      and corporations supporting this emerging
                      infrastructure must be stopped, and held
                      accountable. There is no time to lose.\u201d</p>
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