Gaza NGOs meet secretly with Gaza Humanitarian Foundation - and @UNRWA is PISSED ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Thursday, August 14, 2025

Gaza NGOs meet secretly with Gaza Humanitarian Foundation - and @UNRWA is PISSED

Last week, representatives of several NGOs working in Gaza - including UN OCHAA, WFP, UNICEF and the ICRC - met with the head of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation under the auspices of the US UN team. They had a cordial meeting about how the rhetoric against the GHF has not been helpful and starting to explore how they could work together to bring much needed food into Gaza.

When UNRWA found out about the meeting, it sent out an angry memo - how dare anyone treat GHF as anything but a Zionist and American organization that wants to murder Gazans?

Here is the leaked memo of the initial meeting:

From: "Hart, Tom" thart@interaction.org (mailto:thart@interaction.org)
Subject: Confidential read out of meeting with UN and GHF - from Joyce and Tom H
Date: 7 August 2025 at 05:14:45 CEST
To: IASC Chair iascchair@un.org (mailto:iascchair@un.org), IASC Principals IASCPrincipals@un.org (mailto:IASCPrincipals@un.org)

Dear IASC colleagues -

The US mission to the UN, led by Ambassador Dorothy Shea, organized a private meeting with a small group of us and Johnnie Moore, Executive Chairman of the GHF. The full participant list is at the end. We agreed there would be no public comment on the meeting and we were under Chatham House rules.

The conversation was constructive, open, and we believe helpful. We agreed it would be good for all to lower the public rhetoric and to focus on moving forward rather than what has happened or said previously. We agreed the need was far outpacing the response and the crisis required all-hands-on-deck. Everyone should be doing everything they can to save lives.

There was a sense we could and should operate in parallel, complementary ways, each doing what we can. Fuller collaboration was raised without clarity on what that would mean. Several concerns with the GHF model were tabled based on humanitarian principles. All agreed that flooding the zone would have multiple benefits - most importantly to those in need, as well as to reduce the desperation and chaos at GHF sites and UN convoys, and to diminish the value aid and the risk of diversion to Hamas.

Bureaucratic impediments were raised as a major concern, including visas, staff registration, and security, with no resolution but openness to having further conversation. We shared we have seen no appreciable difference in access since Israel announced daily pauses and humanitarian corridors.

We agreed further conversations on diversion, how to flood the zone, how working in a complementary way might work, and connecting country-level teams. These issues will be managed at the technical level.

Joyce M and Tom H

List of Attendees:
USUN:Ambassador Dorothy Shea
Jonathan Shrier
Morgan Ortagus
Ari Wisch
Bo Sim, PRM detail

Johnnie Moore, GHF
Joyce Msuya, OCHA
Ayaka Qureshi, WFP
Amina Elmi, UNICEF
Michele Sison, IOM
Elyse Mosquini, ICRC
Tom Hart, InterAction

This is how humanitarians should act - finding ways to work together and playing to each of their strengths. Notice also that the memo tacitly admits that aid gets diverted to Hamas.

UNRWA's letter was as angry as a diplomatic letter can get. The pro-terror agency that pretends to be humanitarian is extremely upset at any aid program that bypasses Hamas.

For example, in response to the idea that all players should "lower the public rhetoric," UNRWA wrote:

The United Nations and our protection partners have a clear obligation to advocate for and protect Palestinians subject to human rights and IHL violations, including when these are associated with the GHF. Silence in the face of incidents that may amount to war crimes - which have continued since last week's meeting - may be perceived as complicity. This may prompt conclusions that humanitarian principles have been subordinated to political or military objectives, which would have consequences for humanitarian action beyond Gaza. The same applies to any proposed cooperation with the GHF.

As far as cooperating with GHF, UNRWA is no less angry:

It would also be important to clarify the proposed follow up to the meeting last week, including at the technical and operational levels, to prevent a fracturing of the humanitarian community in Gaza and further endanger humanitarian operations and personnel.

This is right out of the Hamas playbook - everyone must be on the same page of demonizing anything remotely connected with Israel, or else.

Remember, UNRWA has cooperated with Hamas for years. It has employed numerous Hamas members. When Hamas tells it to change its Gaza school curriculum, it changes it. It has had its own secret meetings - not with aid agencies but with terror groups.

There is no daylight between UNRWA and Hamas. I mean, literally zero. They both want the exact same thing - aid continuing to strengthen a murderous terror organization, and boycotting anyone who tries to find an alternative.