GHF. Gaza’s Aid Farce: When Mercenaries Guard the Breadlines

When Mercenaries Guard the Breadlines.

They called it a solution. In early 2025, Washington and Tel Aviv unveiled the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) — a shiny, U.S.- and Israeli-backed charity meant to replace the “politicized” UN system. Billions were promised, warehouses secured, checkpoints erected. UNRWA was sidelined, and in its place came a privatized model: aid centers fortified like military bases, staffed not by neutral humanitarians but by contracted security and logistics firms.

This was supposed to restore credibility to aid. Instead, it birthed a dystopia. At distribution gates where people now line up for flour, the guards are not Red Cross volunteers but private contractors carrying rifles. And as the BBC revealed, many of those guards were no ordinary hires — they were members of the Infidels Motorcycle Club, a far-right U.S. biker gang notorious for its Islamophobic and “crusader” symbolism.

According to the investigation, at least ten Infidels MC members were hired through the contractor UG Solutions, with seven reportedly placed in senior positions overseeing operations at GHF sites. One leader, identified as Johnny “Taz” Mulford, coordinated deployments. Photos show tattoos and insignia referencing the medieval Crusades — hardly subtle imagery for men guarding starving Muslims.

Let that sink in: a humanitarian foundation, funded by the U.S. taxpayer and trumpeted as Gaza’s lifeline, entrusted its frontline to men who brand themselves as warriors against the very people they were supposed to protect.

The consequences were predictable. GHF centers became flashpoints of death: queues bombed, civilians gunned down, families trampled in chaotic scrambles. International outcry followed, but GHF brushed it off as “tragic accidents.” Meanwhile, UN experts and NGOs warned that this model was not humanitarianism but the militarization of aid, a grotesque outsourcing of compassion to the highest bidder.

The bitter irony? GHF was marketed as an improvement over the UN system, especially UNRWA — derided by Israel as “compromised.” But at least UNRWA’s staff were aid workers. At least its operations were accountable to international law. What replaced it is a Frankenstein creation: aid without neutrality, food guarded by mercenaries, and compassion stripped of credibility.

Series of massacres May, June and July 2025

May 2025 (start of GHF, 27–31 May): around 10–17 killed, ~60–80 injured (Rafah killings at Tel al-Sultan aid site).

June 2025: at least 500–600 killed and 3,000–4,000 injured across multiple incidents near GHF sites (1 June, 3 June, 6 June, 10–12 June, mid- to late June shootings and crushes). UN estimated 613 killed by late June, with ~509 at GHF sites.

July 2025: around 700+ killed across Khan Younis, Deir el-Balah, and other hubs. Notable: 20 killed in the Khan Younis “crush” (16 July), 32 in Deir el-Balah (19 July), and many others throughout the month. By end of July, UN and HRW confirmed at least 1,373 killed overall since GHF began — meaning roughly ~747 in July alone.

Here lies the moral collapse: when bread is rationed under the watch of men who wear the insignia of medieval crusades, what remains of humanitarian principle? What is left of the world’s conscience when Gaza’s lifeline is handed over to biker gangs dressed as aid workers?

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation was supposed to save lives. Instead, it has shown the world a chilling truth: when humanitarianism is privatized, it can become just another weapon of war.

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