When it was first established, in February, the main selling point of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation was that it was the best of bad options. The foundation’s masterminds, Israel and the US, argued that using private security contractors to hand out aid parcels from stations inside Israeli military zones would be safer and prevent them from being intercepted by Hamas.

Global aid organisations condemned the plan for flying in the face of international law and humanitarian principles. But Israel’s government had already banned UNRWA, the UN relief agency for Palestinians, from operating inside Gaza, and either restricted the entrance of aid groups to scale their operations or stopped them altogether. For Gaza’s two million civilians, suffering one of the world’s most acute humanitarian crises, the only available alternative to the GHF experiment was certain mass........

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