Thanks to @visegrad24 for the editing.
On July 28, 2025, I was granted rare, unrestricted access to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid sites. What I witnessed challenges much of what’s being said in the media.
Here’s what’s really happening on the ground.
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On July 28, 2025, I was granted rare, unrestricted access to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid sites. What I witnessed challenges much of what’s being said in the media.
Here’s what’s really happening on the ground.
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The devastation is total. Rafah is rubble. Families live in tents or the shells of buildings.
But this thread isn’t about destruction — it’s about what happens after the aid trucks arrive.
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But this thread isn’t about destruction — it’s about what happens after the aid trucks arrive.
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We keep hearing “Israel is starving Gaza.”
But here’s the data:
🔹 Jan–Mar 2025: 25,200 aid trucks entered Gaza
🔹 78% of it was food
🔹 Enough to feed 1.95M people for 6 months — by WFP standards
So why are people still hungry?
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But here’s the data:
🔹 Jan–Mar 2025: 25,200 aid trucks entered Gaza
🔹 78% of it was food
🔹 Enough to feed 1.95M people for 6 months — by WFP standards
So why are people still hungry?
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Because supply is not access.
Food enters Gaza — but distribution breaks down:
▪️ UN systems collapse with guards
▪️ Hamas seizes or blocks aid
▪️ Local warlords steal and resell it
▪️ Civilians without influence, women and children, get left behind
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Food enters Gaza — but distribution breaks down:
▪️ UN systems collapse with guards
▪️ Hamas seizes or blocks aid
▪️ Local warlords steal and resell it
▪️ Civilians without influence, women and children, get left behind
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The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation was set up to change that.
A US-Israeli backed initiative, the GHF created fortified aid hubs — “Secure Distribution Sites” — where civilians can collect food directly, without Hamas interference.
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A US-Israeli backed initiative, the GHF created fortified aid hubs — “Secure Distribution Sites” — where civilians can collect food directly, without Hamas interference.
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I visited SDS 3 in Rafah.
GHF gave me full freedom to observe. No media theatre. No staged tours.
What I saw was both brutal and extraordinary.
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GHF gave me full freedom to observe. No media theatre. No staged tours.
What I saw was both brutal and extraordinary.
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Distribution is fast, tense, heavily secured.
Crowds wait along marked corridors.
Israeli snipers and tanks oversee the perimeter.
Private contractors — ex-US special forces — run the site.
But the crowds are large and unruly.
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Crowds wait along marked corridors.
Israeli snipers and tanks oversee the perimeter.
Private contractors — ex-US special forces — run the site.
But the crowds are large and unruly.
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The contractors are armed — but restrained.
I also saw compassion: medics treating children, women treated with respect, Gazans joking with security at the fence.
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I also saw compassion: medics treating children, women treated with respect, Gazans joking with security at the fence.
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Hamas hates the GHF.
Why?
Because GHF threaten Hamas’s business model of stealing aid.
Hamas has threatened civilians who accept GHF aid, shut down local bakeries, and incited violence at the sites — even staging propaganda videos.
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Why?
Because GHF threaten Hamas’s business model of stealing aid.
Hamas has threatened civilians who accept GHF aid, shut down local bakeries, and incited violence at the sites — even staging propaganda videos.
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Despite this, over 85 million meals have been distributed. Crowds keep coming.
In fact, GHF is now testing “community distribution” — letting trusted locals deliver food deeper into Gaza.
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In fact, GHF is now testing “community distribution” — letting trusted locals deliver food deeper into Gaza.
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This isn’t an endorsement. The GHF model is imperfect. It’s political. The UN won’t cooperate.
But ask yourself: is food protected by armed guards better than no food at all because it’s stolen by Hamas?
That’s the dilemma Gaza faces. That’s the reality I saw.
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But ask yourself: is food protected by armed guards better than no food at all because it’s stolen by Hamas?
That’s the dilemma Gaza faces. That’s the reality I saw.
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My full report is now live:
📝 “The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation: Separating the Truth from the Lies”
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Read it. Share it. Challenge the narrative.
The truth matters — especially when lives are on the line.
🧵[END]henryjacksonsociety.org/wp-content/upl…
📝 “The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation: Separating the Truth from the Lies”
📎
Read it. Share it. Challenge the narrative.
The truth matters — especially when lives are on the line.
🧵[END]henryjacksonsociety.org/wp-content/upl…
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