The group supported by the United States provides assistance to Gaza while bypassing Hamas, says the expert

The humanitarian situation in Gaza has been at the center of the international debate since the start of the Hamas War with Israel in 2023. Long -standing aid organizations and news rushed to provide the Palestinians with critical support. But one group in particular has received backlash for trying to deliver food to the strip, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) in the United States and Israel.

“The big difference between GHF and other aid organizations such as the UN, for example, is that GHF has actually been underpicious or keeping Hamas out of the loop here when it comes to help,” said Joe Truzman, senior research analyst and editor of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ Long War Journal, in Fox News Digital.

The Palestinians have aid supplies they have received from the Gaza humanitarian foundation supported by the United States in the Gaza Central Strip on May 29, 2025. (Reuters / Ramadan Abed)

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Despite criticism and accusations of violence against the Palestinians asking for help on his distribution sites, GHF has delivered more than 76 million meals since the start of his operation at the end of May. Truzman said Hamas had noticed – and reacts – to the success of the GHF, because the terrorist organization could not control the aid.

Truzman thinks that Hamas’ reaction to GHF is revealing and could point out that the group loses access to a key tool for its arsenal to maintain control in Gaza. He told Fox News Digital that Hamas uses “a social protection program” to keep their population.

“Thus, for example, charities controlled by Hamas, mosques controlled by Hamas, schools that are controlled from Hamas and aid controlled by Hamas. Now, they use it to feed the community – Palestinians – and in so doing, they gain this lever effect on Palestinians,” said Truzman. “Palestinian civilians need this help to survive obviously and they count on Hamas to do so. So, this is how Hamas could control the population.”

Palestinian activists in Hamas are on the guard on the day of the transmission of hostages held in Gaza since the fatal of October 7, 2023, as part of a ceasefire and the hostages of the exchange between Hamas and Israel, in Rafah in the south of Gaza, on February 22, 2025. (Reuters / Hatem Khaled / Photo file)

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The diversion of Hamas’ help was something that concerned the United States when it started to support GHF as a way to provide Palestinians with what they need without letting terrorists get them. In June, when the United States announced funding of $ 30 million for the GHF, the main deputy spokesperson for the State Department, Tommy Pigott, praised the work of the organization to distribute aid “while preventing the looting of Hamas”.

“If GHF was not there at the moment, I think we will be back to the same old distribution where Hamas would control it, well or other Palestinian terrorist groups. I think it is a problem that no one could really understand,” Truzman told Fox News Digital.

The United Nations has been particularly critical of GHF, which Truzman attributes more to the “very anti-Israeli position” of the UN and to the institutional bias that the desire of civil servants to stick to the methods used in the past.

The Palestinians carry bags of flour while they gather to receive assistance supplies from Khan Younis, in the Southern Gaza Strip on June 26, 2025. (Reuters / Hatem Khaled)

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“I think the UN is very unhappy in the situation they no longer control, at least, to distribute help in the Gaza Strip,” said Truzman.

On Tuesday, the executive director of the GHF, the Reverend Johnnie Moore, said that his organization “had helped to make one reautical one when I Israel reopened access to Gaza”.

Fox News Digital contacted the United Nations Office for Humanitarian Affairs Coordination (OCHA) about Moore’s claim, but did not obtain confirmation or clear denial.

“We welcome when anyone who has an influence that has witnessed the disaster taking place in Gaza for more than 21 months calls on the Israeli authorities to quickly release access and allow safe and sustained delivery of humanitarian aid,” said OCHA spokesperson Eri Kaneko, in Fox News Digital. “The life of the inhabitants of Gaza is at stake. The end of their suffering must be the shared priority and the ultimate objective for all of us working with urgency and determination.”