Since February the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has delivered more than 85 million meals to hungry Gazan refugees at the south end of the strip. Executive Director Johnnie Moore tells The Christian Post that the Gazan's are very grateful.
“We're hearing from the Gazans themselves, who are thanking us and thanking America. They're grateful for what we're doing. You wouldn't know it by reading a lot of the press, but it's actually working really, really well,” Moore said.
But he says the United Nations is trying to stop the convoy of food.
“The U.N. has actively boycotted our efforts, which is nuts. The UN has never boycotted Hamas,” he says.
Critics say GHF is too closely aligned with Israel and the U.S. A U.N. spokesperson in May said the group’s distribution plan “does not accord with our principles of impartiality, neutrality and independence; we will not be participating.”
Moore says the U.N. had been providing aid to the region, but the anti-Israel body was giving it to Hamas, who then either used it to feed its militants or sold it to the refugees in order to buy weapons and fund their terror tunnels.
“Almost all of the humanitarian aid that has been going into Gaza, for as long as anybody can remember, has been under the total control of Hamas,” he said.
Moore says his aid is getting in the middle of the grift, and neither the U.N. nor Hamas are too happy about it. Hamas even started a riot at a distribution center. Twenty people were killed.
“I think there's a ton of corruption in this whole process. I think we have inadvertently peeled back the layer of something we didn't even know was underneath, and I think a lot of people feel threatened by it,” he said.
