Awaiting the 20 Point Plan: Is Trump’s Gaza Humanitarian Foundation ethnically cleansing Palestinians? By Joaquin Flores

There may be another side to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation story. From Joaquin Flores at strategic-culture.su:

The survival of Palestinians in Gaza is not merely a matter of daily sustenance but forms the material foundation for any future Palestinian state.

In the wake of Trump’s rolling out a 20 Point Plan to end the war in Gaza, it is critical to continue humanitarian assessments based on the fact that between now and its implementation (which is itself not yet guaranteed), Palestinians today face the threat of mass starvation. While there are reports that Netanyahu has agreed to the peace plan, the history of these matters justifies legitimate concern. There are already signs that Netanyahu is speaking at odds with the plan. This appears to be because it entails it the realization of the Palestinian right to self-determination that could ultimately create a Palestinian state. The plan itself also calls for the immediate widespread resumption of UN food relief and medical efforts across Gaza. However, at this moment, the single largest organization operating in Gaza is the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, an organization that has received widespread criticism in Western official press, UN reports, and rights organizations.

Human rights groups and the UN conclude that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s overall aim in Gaza has the effect of creating starvation in order to effect an ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians. But a U.S. created program by President Trump, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), established to feed Palestinians, is receiving negative reception from establishment press including their televised media, as well as left-wing internet-based media. It has also been directly criticized by the UN itself. On the face of it, this criticism would appear to find justification in two facts: Israel is on paper as a co-sponsor of this initiative, and also that IDF soldiers and U.S. contractors have opened fire at people gathering to receive food from GHF food distribution sites. In other words, a question is posed: is the GHF a real effort to counter the ethnic cleansing by way of starvation, or is it a ‘humanitarian cover’ for a criminal agenda of depopulation combined with planned on-site shootings to discourage seeking out food? Our impressions boil down to how one reads the reports from the UN, the press, and human rights NGOs, and understanding what Netanyahu’s aims are.

The issue surrounds the GHF’s genealogy, where its support comes from, and whatever meaning from which we can best interpret its role. In other words, if this is also Israel’s approved food distribution organization, and if potentially they aim to ethnically cleanse the Palestinians from Gaza despite Netanyahu’s (tentative?) agreement with Trump’s 20 point plan (with caveats), then it follows that these distributions sites are particularly perilous places to be. No doubt, they are. But compared to what?

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