This group Is feeding Gaza’s hungry. Why is the UN trying to shut it down?

Despite initial setbacks, the Gaza Humanitarian Fund's effort to increasingly feed Gazans is enjoying real success, with orderly lines of heads of households being provided with free packages that would last for a week.

So why are the United Nations and its supporters still screaming against it and claiming Gaza is on the brink of starvation?

According to Israel Hayom's reporter Ariel Kahana, it all comes down to two things: money and politics.

The money part is obvious: if non-UN organizations can do the job of providing humanitarian aid to Gazans as well or even better than UN-affiliated NGOs, why bother donating so many millions to the latter? Especially when Israel and the United States are deeply suspicious of the ties between the NGOs and Hamas?

We're talking tens of thousands of jobs, some of them very well-paid, which would evaporate if the Gaza Humanitarian Fund succeeded. So instead, according to Kahana, the United Nations is heavily pressuring countries in Europe and elsewhere to decry the "hunger in Gaza" that has been rapidly abating, just so that the existing aid groups get back their monopoly on aids and funds.

The politics is equally clear: the UN-affiliated NGOs such as UNRWA have a vested interest in fanning the flames of Palestinian nationalism against Israel, including supporting politically destructive ideas such as the right of Palestinian refugees from 1948 and their descendants to return to the State of Israel and overwhelm it. If those groups are defunded, those aims recede.

If the GHF continues to succeed in its mission, we may see a turning point in the Gaza war.