THE WEAPONIZATION OF HUMANITARIAN AID TO PERSECUTE, OPPRESS, AND EXTERMINATE NATIONS UNDER OCCUPATION: REFLECTION ON GAZA HUMANITARIAN FOUNDATION - 2025

Abstract

The study examined the weaponization of humanitarian aid against defenseless communities under siege, to persecute, oppress, and exterminate them according to their occupier’s agenda, using the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation as a model. It highlighted the foundation's humanitarian aid distribution protocols and activities, which illustrated violation of the principles of humanitarian work and international law, and involved inhumane conducts, attacks, and heinous crimes. This paper emphasized the significance of humanitarian aid in international humanitarian law amid times of disasters and examined its essence, function, and goals in practice. It studied its weaponization against a starved sieged nation on the verge of collapse, and the manipulation of humanitarian aid as a cover to support and propagate the occupation agenda and narrative. The research illustrated that the distribution centers were weaponized for humiliation, heinous violence and crimes, inhumane conducts, killing and abducting traps, and war crimes against starved and fatigue children, women, and men on the verge of collapse from displacement and deprivation of life essentials. This applies on the routes that relief convoys take, which are all operated and controlled in collaboration with or on behalf by the Zionist occupation. Halting the work of the suspicious institution (GHF) and holding it accountable for all its shameful and criminal practices is the first recommendation of the study and focusing on ending the genocide in Gaza, which is the demanded by UN, most states, and NGOs all over the world. The study recommended strongly setting strict conditions and mandatory protocols for accreditation and work of any relief institution in crisis regions and distressed communities.  United Nations and Human Rights higher entities should then take full responsibility in overseeing the execution and monitoring the progress and should not be manipulated by any party, especially the occupying forces and its allies.