The woman defies the corruption of the aid of Gaza, receives threats bypassing the corruption networks

First on Fox – In a part torn apart by the war of the Middle East, where corruption and violence often determine who can eat and who is hungry, a woman has chosen to challenge the system.

When a large part of the world had delighted Northern Gaza as inaccessible, Sarah Awaidah, a resident of East-Jerusalem, 30 years old and her team, has cut a rescue buoy. Under the umbrella of Mena Aid, a coalition of regional partners operating through the Multi -Put on Alliance (MFA), and in coordination with the Israeli authorities, it built a system that has moved hundreds of food and supplies in Gaza – bypassing Hamas and private entrepreneurs who had transformed hunger into a company.

The result: more than 100,000 nourished families. The cost: its own safety. “I never imagined that the creation of a safe and independent humanitarian road would become the reason why my life could end,” Sarah Awaidah told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview that took place in a safe house in Israel.

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Distribution of aid coordinated by Sarah Awaidah in northern Gaza last week. (Gracieuse of Multifith Alliance.)

“After delivering 346 aid trucks between September 2024 and February 2025, we reached 100,622 families,” said Awaidah. “We decided to expand the distribution on June 30, 2025, at a time when no one could obtain anything in Gaza because of looting, chaos and several strata of obstruction on the ground.”

Operating via Mena Aid, the Awaidah team designed another route to deliver food and essential supplies.

In Israel, a trustworthy logistics company transported goods from the port of Ashdod to Kerem Shalom and Zikim Crossings. Inside Gaza, another logistics partner managed transport, while Awaidah staff – coordinated in real time with Israel – shaded each shipping.

“Once the aid has crossed Gaza, it is resumed by another logistics partner of trust and escorted by the members of our team.

Sarah Awaidah, working with Multifith Alliance, has brought food to more than 100,000 families. Her success has now made her a target for profiteers.

“Our teams are present during unloading and accompany the help of the crossing to secure warehouses. Inside the warehouses, we start the distribution immediately – aimed at delivering the same day, and at most in the two to three days. Nothing is allowed to remain inactive.”

This level of control allowed them to achieve what few others could: reach the north of Gaza, where people had not seen a base of food for months.

Its breakthrough revealed a darker reality – an economy where hunger itself has become a business.

Distribution of aid in the north of Gaza last week. (Gracieuse of Multifith Alliance.)

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“There are many businessmen in the private sector – some partners in Hamas and other political groups – trying to use aid to win millions,” she said. “Because there is such a shortage of goods and the prices are so high, some fly and sell it on the market. Others try to take over the supply routes so that they can resell it.”

According to Awaidah, the success of his team threatened those who take advantage of rarity. By flooding the market of free products, they not only fed families, but also lowered the swollen prices loaded for bases such as sugar and flour.

“If there is no sugar in Gaza and we bring it for free, they cannot continue to sell it at scandalous prices,” she said. “So we have become their problem.”

The Israeli authorities also tried to cut these diets from the private sector by closing the routes that allowed commercial profits. Although this has helped to slow down a certain corruption, it also made the humanitarian channels remaining more dangerous.

Hamas terrorists take a position before a release of hostages in Deir al-Balah, Central Gaza Strip, on February 8, 2025. (AP)

“The private sector was blocked, and those who have lost their profits began to try to threaten and infiltrate the humanitarian road,” she said. “They couldn’t control it, so they tried to break it – and me.”

The attacks on her came quickly. “I started to receive death threats – not only from Gaza, but from the West Bank … heartbreaking, some came from people in whom I trust.”

One of the most painful betrayals came from a person close to her, she said, “I even discovered that I was in a relationship full of lies,” she said. “This person was part of a gang who wanted to exploit the help operation – and he tried to use me too. But I was firm. I made sure that he, and people like him, never approached it. And now my life is in danger because I refused to let the private sector divert aid for a commercial gain, or to let the political actors bend it to serve their goals.”

Humanitarian workers delivered food to the Gazans in the northern part of the enclave last week. (Multifith alliance)

For Awaidah, the families she helps is the reason why she refuses to stop. “We have created a distribution model based on lists of checked beneficiaries, using identification checks to ensure fair and worthy access to food,” she said. “People stood calmly, organized, even in impossible conditions. It is something that the media rarely show – the dignity and patience of the people.”

During the last month, his group delivered 75 trucks and has 112 others on the way to Ashdod. Every day, it focuses on the mission, even if the threats are developing.

“What broke me the most was the threats of foreigners-it was realizing that people close to me were one of them,” she said. “It is easier to fight against enemies from the outside. But when it comes from your own circle, it cuts more deeply. However, it only confirms that we do something good. If they lose their heads on this subject, it means that the mechanism that we have built works.

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She knows the risks. But for her, the alternative is worse. “I will not stop. And they will not stop me,” she said, “I will continue to provide help to the people who need it, whatever the threats. This is my promise.”

For Awaidah, standing up to corruption has reached a high personal cost. But for the families of Gaza who have held in its food lines, it has already changed what was once impossible: obtaining a good part of help, without price.