The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) closed its operations in Gaza this week. Locals will undoubtedly be happy to see the back of GHF’s militarised aid post. After all, mercenaries and Israeli soldiers killed up to 600 starving Gazans at the sites. And, one whistleblower is certain war crimes were carried out. Which can hardly be surprising given some of those working on the posts were from fascist ex-military biker gang.

In a bizarre closing statement, GHF claimed it had fond memories of those it had ‘served’ in the bombed out enclave. Unmentioned were allegations that GHF checkpoints had Israeli military personnel embedded gathering data – possibly to serve its high-tech assassination complex.

Former special forces GHF whistleblower Anthony Aquilar spoke to journalist Chris Hedges about the date gathering:

But don’t relax too soon. GHF, or rather the firm behind it, UG Solutions, isn’t packing up at all. It appears to already have new contracts under Donald Trump’s colonialist ‘peace’ plan. And so do other shadowy ‘aid’ firms.

Trump’s obscene Gaza plan

On 28 November, Responsible Statecraft (RS) reported that UG was just one of the firms getting contracts under the new ‘peace’ plan:

a consulting company called Q2IMPACT has also received a $7 million U.S. contract to “monitor the efficacy of humanitarian aid in Palestine and Lebanon.

Anthony Aguilar told RS:

The intent of the privatized aid mechanism under GHF, now under Q2IMPACT and UGS, is to displace the population, establish precursors to kill unarmed civilians, and implement systematic starvation under the guise of humanitarian aid.

Aguilar also revealed the lack of training given to contractors for the original GHF. He told RS he and others had “received absolutely no training whatsoever. UG Solutions “did not confirm the credentials or abilities of the security guards they hired” and had no capacity to “train security personnel at scale to deal with the complexities of the Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza”.

The State Department has rejected Aguilar’s allegations. Experts have pointed to GHF’s failure as an example of why military operations and goals and aid do not – and should never – be mixed. Nevertheless, these firms are eager to cash in as the genocide moves into its next stage. For the likes of UG and Q2IMPACT, what matters is the corporate bottom line.

Featured image via the Canary

By Joe Glenton

This post was originally published on Canary.