by Haaretz Editorial Board at Haaretz
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation was established in early February. The nonprofit was supposed to deliver aid from international charities to residents of the Gaza Strip and sever the supply chain that had sustained Hamas throughout the war.
For three months, no one in the Israeli government was able to explain how the GHF would be funded. In June, it turned out that the Finance Ministry had allocated 700 million shekels ($205 million) for humanitarian aid to Gaza.
Although Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich insisted that the money was not intended for food aid to Gaza, this was a circumlocution. The money was used for the logistics of food distribution: transportation, security, supervision of the packing process.
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