Gaza Humanitarian Foundation's private military contractor hires crisis comms firm led by former Biden and Obama spokespersons

A militarized U.S. and Israeli effort to replace United Nations-affiliated aid into the occupied Gaza Strip, known as the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), has received international condemnation since its launch in May. Formed as an offshoot of a vehicle inspection checkpoint along Gaza’s Netzarim corridor which opened in January, the effort now employs two American firms led by former CIA officers and Green Berets to distribute meals in a manner they describe as designed to prevent looting from Hamas.

As of Friday, the United Nations human rights office reported at least 615 killings, largely by the Israeli military, near the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s aid distribution points. 

The primary boots on the ground since January, the North Carolina-based private military contractor UG Solutions led by former Green Beret Jameson Govoni, has largely operated as a subcontractor to the Virginia-based security and logistics firm Safe Reach Solutions, which is led by former CIA covert activities chief Philip Francis Reilly. In May, the two security contractors shifted to the background, with former USAID official John Acree and the evangelical public relations executive Johnnie Moore becoming the public face via the GHF, following the resignation of the GHF’s original executive director over concerns of violations of core humanitarian principles.

In response to the widespread controversy, including from an Associated Press report on a UG Solutions contractor-turned-whistleblower, UG Solutions hired the crisis communications firm Seven Letter, whose partners include former Biden and Obama administration spokespersons.

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