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The Gaza “Trojan horse” aid agenda. Photo credit: Illustration by WhoWhatWhy from Jaber Jehad Badwan / Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Jorge Láscar / Wikimedia (CC BY 2.0)

Sixty-five percent of Israelis favor biblical genocide in Gaza.

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The newest Gaza “aid plan” — a joint US-Israeli operation initially fronted by former US Marine sniper Jake Wood — is not humanitarian relief. It’s a smokescreen for a militarized control mission.

Wood, a veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, later founded Team Rubicon, a “disaster relief” NGO backed by  PalantirTechnologies Inc, the notorious surveillance and military tech firm deeply embedded in US defense operations.

Until his abrupt resignation on May 26, Wood served as CEO of the Geneva-registered Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which presents itself as a relief effort for Gaza’s starving population.

But despite Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s claims of humanitarian intent, GHF was configured as a military-intelligence front — providing political cover for continued operations that are deliberately targeting civilians.

Behind the GHF are private military contractors who are quietly being funneled into Israel, reportedly in unmarked tactical clothing, resembling operatives from Trump-pardoned Erik Prince’s war-crime mercenary firm, Blackwater aka, Xe Services

They have again rebranded as Academi, now also known as Guardian and are still operating with profitable impunity, including a $5B AI deal with Amazon and estimated $500M in contracts with the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. PMCs are notorious for quietly producing expensive atrocities around the world, without accountability. 

The weaponization of humanitarian aid is not new. The US used it in Vietnam’s “strategic hamlet” program, and Britain did the same during the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya — blurring the line between relief and counterinsurgency, with devastating effects on civilians.

Food is being weaponized to lure starving civilians into targeted zones, which are then bombed or sealed off — turning humanitarian corridors into killing fields, constituting genocide, according to the UN. 

This is not relief. It is systematic entrapment, displacement, and extermination, masked as counterterrorism in a propagandized eternal war. It fits the legal and moral definition of genocide — the deliberate destruction of a people — carried out with full US support and in open defiance of international law.

Within 24 hours of these revelations, Wood abruptly resigned from his post as CEO of the GHF, amid growing exposure of the plans for attacks on civilians under the guise of humanitarian aid.

Meanwhile, Israel continues to deny the existence of any Gaza famine — despite overwhelming evidence of mass starvation, including among children — and it continues bombing so-called “safe zones” like Rafah, already reduced to rubble.

At the same time, Israeli officials — including those in Netanyahu’s government — routinely use dehumanizing language, calling Palestinians “animals” or “rats in tunnels.” This is not rhetorical excess. It is ideological groundwork for mass violence.

A recent Haaretz poll reveals the extent to which violent ideologies have taken hold in segments of Israeli society, mirroring the troubling trends identified in a 2016 Pew Research survey, in which

  • 82 percent supported the forced expulsion of Palestinians.
  • 65 percent favored a literal enactment of the biblical Amalek genocide command — interpreted by many as a call for extermination.
  • 56 percent supported the expulsion of Arab citizens of Israel.

This is not simply a Netanyahu problem. It reflects a wider societal ideology rooted in Israeli ethnonationalism, upheld by military aggression, corporate partnerships, and foreign complicity — especially from the United States.