{"id":2975,"date":"2025-07-10T02:41:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T06:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/2025\/07\/center-for-constitutional-rights-demands-info-from-trump-admin-on-funding-for-aid-group-behind-death-trap-in-gaza\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T02:41:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T06:41:06","slug":"center-for-constitutional-rights-demands-info-from-trump-admin-on-funding-for-aid-group-behind-death-trap-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=2975","title":{"rendered":"Center for Constitutional Rights Demands Info from Trump Admin on Funding for Aid Group Behind \u201cDeath Trap\u201d in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Center for Constitutional Rights yesterday submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request<\/u><\/a> seeking records related to the State Department’s approval of $30 million in funding for the organization empowered by Israel and the United States to manage aid distribution in Gaza. In the six weeks that the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) has operated, Israeli forces have killed at least 613 Palestinians and injured at least 4,000 more at or near its sites, which are guarded by U.S. private military contractors.<\/p>\n

Since the beginning of its genocidal assault on Gaza twenty-one months ago, the Israeli government has deprived millions of Palestinians of food and other basic necessities for life. Now, amid the widespread starvation that it has created, the Netanyahu government has sidelined the U.N.\u2019s neutral, internationally recognized Gaza-wide system of aid delivery in favor of GHF\u2019s privatized and militarized model, which one U.N. expert describes as a \u201cdeath trap<\/u><\/a>.\u201d Israeli soldiers were ordered to fire <\/u><\/a>on Palestinians waiting for food, according to a report in Haaretz. <\/p>\n

GHF\u2019s system was designed to align with the Israeli\u2019s government stated goal of forcibly displacing Palestinians from the north to the south of Gaza \u2013 a war crime under international law. While the UN\u2019s 400 distribution sites largely sit dormant, GHF delivers aid at a handful of sites primarily located in the south. In fact, internal planning documents reveal that people involved in the development of GHF understood the risk that its distribution hubs would force the displacement of Palestinians. <\/p>\n

In its FOIA request, the Center for Constitutional Rights seeks records that could reveal whether GHF was also created to further President Trump\u2019s \u201cGaza Riviera\u201d redevelopment \u2013 and ethnic cleansing \u2013 plan. The Center of Constitutional Rights has previously joined other human rights and legal organizations in warning <\/u><\/a>that individuals and entities involved in GHF could face legal liability for complicity in war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.<\/p>\n

It is against this backdrop that the State Department approved a $30 million United States Agency for International Development (USAID) grant for GHF, which is chaired by Johnnie Moore, an evangelical preacher who worked in the first Trump administration. GHF has not disclosed information about its funding, yet in announcing the grant, the State Department exempted it<\/u><\/a> from the audit required for groups receiving USAID funds for the first time. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt is outrageous that rather than investigating GHF and the private military contractors at its distribution hubs for complicity in war crimes, the Trump administration has doubled down in furthering Israel\u2019s ethnic cleansing and genocide of Palestinians in Gaza by giving GHF tens of millions of dollars,\u201d said, Center for Constitutional Rights Senior Staff Attorney Katherine Gallagher<\/u><\/a>. \u201cThe GHF operation raises many concerning questions about U.S. long-term plans for Gaza, and we will use this FOIA to get answers. The United States must stop sending arms and contractors to Gaza, and instead demand that the United Nations be permitted to resume its aid operations until Palestinians can fully return and rebuild a free Gaza.\u201d <\/p>\n

With its FOIA request, the Center for Constitutional Rights seeks all relevant records from the State Department and USAID from October 1st, 2024 to present, including information about GHF\u2019s creation, the role of consulting groups like the Boston Consulting Group, its leadership, and financing. The FOIA also seeks information about the U.S. government links to the newly formed private military contractors in Gaza, Safe Reach Solutions (SRS) and UG Solutions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Center for Constitutional Rights yesterday submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking records related to the State Department’s approval of $30 million in funding for the organization empowered by Israel and the United States to manage aid distribution in Gaza. In the six weeks that the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) has operated, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[742],"class_list":["post-2975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ciencia-y-tecnologia","tag-vr-news-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}