This is how the U.S.-run GHF tried to build a local network of ‘aid collaborators’ in Gaza by Tareq S. Hajjaj

An official security source in the Gaza civil government told Mondoweiss in mid-June that Hamas possesses “reliable intelligence” confirming that the GHF has been pressuring local institutions to participate in its operations. These attempts were meant to force organizations to cooperate in a strategy of “engineering starvation and managing chaos,” the official said, which he said was part of “a politically motivated and security-driven project dressed in humanitarian garb.”

“However, these institutions, guided by their national consciousness and ethical commitment, refused to become tools for a party responsible for our people’s suffering,” he added.

But there are some organizations that have cooperated. The GHF and the Israeli army have essentially pursued two paths in dominating the humanitarian landscape in Gaza: forcing international organizations to either work with the GHF or to halt operations, and using local gangs and businesses as part of its “native” network, giving a Palestinian face to an Israeli-U.S. operation with military and political objectives. Here is how it has attempted to achieve the objective of building this network of “aid collaborators.”