Israel’s day after plan in Gaza has been revealed by its so-called ‘aid’ regime: disaster capitalism and Shin Bet-organized crime, says Richard Silverstein.
by Richard Silverstein, reposted from The New Arab, June 17, 2025
Another of Israel’s worst-kept secrets is out: Shin Bet is arming and funding 600 to 1,000 Palestinian mercenaries from the al-Shabab clan in Gaza to sow chaos and counter Hamas by proxy.
These gunmen fire directly at starving Palestinians seeking the aid provided by Israeli-US disaster humanitarianism, with over 100 killed since the program began in what’s been described as human “hunger games.”
Israel claims that it doesn’t supply either light weapons or salaries to these thugs and that the weapons are captured from Hamas. But given the Israeli army’s history of lying, there’s reason to be skeptical.
Writing in Haaretz, Yossi Melman exposed another covert layer of Israel’s aid effort, designed in part to sideline independent NGOs. This is, of course, the shadowy group called the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which has funded and managed the operation, aided by former US Special Forces operatives. Melman reveals for the first time that Mossad created the dummy foundation in Switzerland.
Its opaque funding, it turns out, came directly from Israel’s Defense Ministry, to the tune of $140 million per month (continue reading here).
Richard Silverstein writes the Tikun Olam blog and is a freelance journalist specializing in exposing secrets of the Israeli national security state. He campaigns against opacity and the negative impact of Israeli military censorship.
