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Starvation Engineering: Is Israel Covertly Funding Fake ‘Gaza Aid’ Op?
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IMAGE: A boy carries a box of relief supplies from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) on May 29, 2025 (Source: AFP – Eyad BABA)
The source of funding for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF)’s so-called aid relief operation in Gaza remains ambiguous. The organisation asserts that it has secured over $100 million in commitments from a government within the European Union, yet it has not disclosed the identity of this donor. Both the United States and Israel have stated that they are not providing financial support to these operations. Last Saturday, Israeli entrepreneurs, along with reservists from the IDF, who had served in the office of the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) under the leadership of Netanyahu’s newly appointed military secretary, Brig. Gen. Roman Gofman, were reported by the New York Times to be involved in the efforts to provide humanitarian aid to civilians in Gaza— The NYT article suggested that this initiative was proposed as a means to circumvent the UN, which was viewed as displaying a bias against Israel. According to Harretz’s sources in the Israeli food industry, “small food distributors in Israel have recently been purchasing food, much of it supplied by vendors in the West Bank, and have begun packing cartons destined for Gaza. Most of the goods arriving in the West Bank through SRS are imported from abroad”.
According to the US Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, the US and Israel are not financing the efforts even though Members of the Knesset, including Yair Lapid and Avigdor Lieberman, have both hinted at Israel’s covert funding of the contentious Gaza Humanitarian Foundation operation in the strip.
VIDEO: US Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, holds live Press conference, early May 2025 (13:08) (Source: U.S. Embassy Jerusalem)
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Furthermore, several reports have now confirmed that Safe Reach Solutions (SRS), the main security contractor for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which has been openly criticised by established and globally recognised International Humanitarian Organisations, operates as a shell company for Two Ocean Trust, LLC, a generational wealth management firm based in Wyoming. SRS has been reported by independent Journalist Jack Poulson to have evolved from the work of Philip Reilly, a former Chief CIA operative, at the private intelligence company Orbis Operations. In his Substack report, Poulson provides many receipts, including a link to documents filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission on April 12, 2021, which indicates that Orbis Operations was chaired by Michael J. Morell, who previously served as the acting director of the CIA (from 2010 to 2013). A biography of Philip F. Reilly, which can be found in the archives of the Third Option Foundation’s website, confirms his role as a former senior paramilitary officer at the CIA—Third Option Foundation, which is known to have ties with the CIA, characterises the man as the former head of the agency’s Special Activities Division, which oversees CIA paramilitary and propaganda operations at the Special Activities Centre (SAC). The name Third Option refers to the motto of the CIA Special Activities Centre: Tertia Optio, the US President’s third option when military force is inappropriate and diplomacy is inadequate.
As stated by Knesset member Avigdor Lieberman in a post on X, ” The money for humanitarian aid comes from the Mossad and the Ministry of Defense. Hundreds of millions of dollars at the expense of Israeli citizens.” If Lieberman is right, we could be looking at an intelligence operation covertly articulated by the US and Israel. The question is, why?
“Most of Safe Reach Solutions (SRS) people are former NSA, former CIA, intelligence personnel and former military personnel”
Recent allegations indicate that the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) might be fulfilling a dual role. Proponents of this claim contend that, instead of solely offering assistance, the foundation is being employed as a tool to enable the ethnic cleansing of northern Gaza. This assertion is based on the conviction that the aid is intended to direct resources in a way that ultimately compels the destitute and starving Gaza population into densely populated, concentration camp-like settings. At this juncture, the potential for Israel, with the support of the United States, to forcibly remove the population of Gaza from the strip into the Sinai Peninsula, while labelling it as voluntary migration, must not be disregarded…
IMAGE: Brig. Gen. Roman Gofman with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu(Source: GPO)
Uri Blau and Milan Czerny report for Shomrim…
About 360 million shekels for three months just to secure the aid operation in Gaza – and the question that remains open: Who pays?
Internal conversations at the American security company operating in the Gaza Strip as part of the humanitarian aid program reveal estimates of huge sums of money spent on financing about 500 employees working in Israel. About $980 a day for wages and social security, huge sums for insurance, payment for accommodation in a hotel in the south, and business-class airline tickets. Politicians in Israel have hinted that the money comes from Israel, but company officials emphasise: “The problem is the politics behind the scenes.” Exposing guards
Even now, as the food is being distributed, the question of “where does the money come from?” remains open. The contract with SRS was signed by the end of August, so the cost is expected to reach about 360 million shekels ($103 million) in the next three months. Israeli politicians, including opposition leader Yair Lapid, already hinted this week that Israel is funding the program.
A senior company official said in an internal conversation obtained by Shumerim that they are “well-funded. The concern is not that there will be no money for the employees, but that our contract will not be extended beyond September.” He said:
“The funding comes from unnamed “deep-pocketed” countries, adding “the contract was not signed with the US Department of Defense, despite the United States’ support for the initiative.”
The source emphasised that “the problem is the politics behind the scenes,” and the speed of planning the operation. He noted that the company works “very close to the host country” (Israel) and in close proximity to Israeli forces. “The work is not under the Israelis, but they agreed to the American solution, and that is the only solution, at least for now,” he said.
Details obtained by the guards indicate that SRS hired about 500 workers for the operation, whose salaries are paid every two weeks directly from the company registered in Wyoming, United States [a shell company of the Wyoming-based generational wealth management firm Two Ocean Trust, LLC]. The salary varies depending on the position and the level of risk (only some of the workers enter Gaza), but the average salary is about $800 per day (including a day off). Each worker also receives an IDF expense allowance of $180 per day, and is provided with accommodation in a hotel in the south of the country and a round-trip business class flight ticket from the place he comes from. Thus, the monthly cost for the workers’ salaries alone is about $15 million per month.
Sources involved in the field say that to this amount, at least $4 million should be added for insurance, and another $4 million for accommodation expenses.
An SRS executive said in an internal conversation obtained by Shumerim that they are “well-funded. The concern is not that there will be no money for the employees, but that our contract will not be extended beyond September.”
According to internal conversations, any employee who needs it will also receive protective equipment and weapons, in addition to logistical expenses such as daily transportation and meals. To all of this, the company’s profit percentage must also be added. According to estimates, the expenses will amount to at least $35 million per month.
Businessman Moti Kahane, who himself was in contact with the Defense Ministry and proposed a plan for distributing aid in the Gaza Strip through the GDC company he owns, told the guards that the estimated cost of his plan – which was more limited compared to the current one – was about $200 million per six months, about $33 million per month.
And once again, the question arises – where do the duplicate amounts come from? The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHT), which is managing the aid operation for Gaza, told the media that it was promised a donation of $100 million from an unnamed “Western European country.” This week, Lapid, as well as MK Avigdor Lieberman, hinted that Israel is behind the funding of the aid to Gaza, but they did not explain what this assessment is based on. Media inquiries to the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Finance were answered by saying that the ministries would not comment on the issue.
Although GHF received the go-ahead from the United States and Israel to operate, the UN, other countries, and international aid organisations announced that they would not cooperate with it. Nevertheless, as is known, SRS and the GHF Foundation began operating this week, with activity halted on the first day after Gaza residents broke into the aid compound. The company, as the conversation shows, feared this scenario and prepared for it with the intention of not using lethal means to disperse the gatherings. In practice, the security personnel withdrew and, according to some reports, shots were fired into the air.
SRS did not respond to a request from Shomrim regarding the cost of its employment and its sources of funding.
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