We Refuse to Let Hamas Decide Who Eats, Who Starves in Gaza: GHF Chairman

American Thought Leaders

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🗓️ 16 July 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a newly established U.S.-backed aid group distributing food in Gaza, is under fire from critics who say hundreds of Gazans have been killed near its distribution sites.

But is there a bigger story here?

In this episode, I sit down with Johnnie Moore, executive chairman of the GHF and former commissioner for the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.

“We have one mission, to feed the people of Gaza in a way that Hamas—a designated terrorist organization in the United States and Europe—can’t steal the food because for many, many years, Hamas has been stealing the food of the Gazan people,” Moore says.

“The problem in Gaza is that the United Nations and other international agencies created a system which empowered virtually every bad actor and every bad force in the Gaza Strip to make a bad situation worse.”

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0:00.0	The UN trucks, when they arrive into the Gaza Strip,
0:03.4	they're immediately either taken by Hamas or Hamas-affiliated groups with guns,
0:08.2	and Hamas decides what to do with the food.
0:10.4	We have one mission to feed the people of Gaza in a way that Hamas,
0:15.5	a designated terrorist organization, can't steal the food.
0:18.6	The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, GHF, a new U.S.-backed aid group distributing food in Gaza,
0:24.6	is under fire from critics who have said
0:27.6	hundreds of Gazans have been killed near its distribution sites.
0:31.6	But is there a bigger story here?
0:33.6	One of the things Hamas was trying to do is they were trying to make
0:36.6	Gazans afraid to come to our distribution sites.
0:39.3	Hamas killed 12 of our local Ghazan aid workers.
0:44.3	In this episode, I'm sitting down with Johnny Moore, Executive Chairman of the GHF,
0:49.3	and former Commissioner for the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.
0:53.3	The problem in Gaza is that the United Nations and other international agencies
0:58.0	created a system which empowered virtually every bad actor to make a bad situation worse.
1:06.0	This is American Thought Leaders, and I'm Yanya Kellick.
1:10.0	Johnny Moore, such a pleasure to have you back on American This is American Thought Leaders, and I'm Jan Yekkelik.
1:15.5	Johnny Moore, such a pleasure to have you back on American Thought Leaders.
1:16.6	It's great to be back, Jan.
1:23.3	So you have a new project, and that is heading up the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
1:31.5	And I've been hearing all sorts of things about it, some incredibly positive and some, frankly, wildly negative.
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