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In the middle of May, the United Nations humanitarian relief chief, Tom Fletcher, provided an update to the UN Security Council.

It was about the situation in Gaza.

Mr. President, members of the Council, briefing you again on this subject is a grim undertaking.

In the briefing, he spoke about a new U.S. and Israeli-backed aid system that would

launch later that month in Gaza. And he did not mince words.

It makes aid conditional on political and military aims.

It makes starvation a bargaining chip.

It is a cynical side show, a deliberate distraction, a fig leaf for further violence and

displacement.

If any of that still matters, have no part in it.

This organization he's speaking of is called the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, or GHF.

And when it began operations on the ground in Gaza in May, it did so amid a great deal of

controversy and mayhem.

My colleagues at the F.T had been writing about the launch of GHF, about the mystery around its origins and its financing, and about the chaotic and deadly early days of the operation.

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