AhlulBayt News Agency: A recent Financial Times investigation has revealed that a US consulting firm played a central role in an Israeli-American aid plan in Gaza that has resulted in mass casualties and allegedly aimed to relocate large portions of the Palestinian population under the pretense of humanitarian coordination.
The report, published Saturday, claims the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) helped design and execute the aid distribution framework and also contributed to a plan modeling the relocation of Palestinians from Gaza.
Despite initially denying involvement with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), BCG reportedly received over $4 million in contracts for work carried out over seven months.
More than a dozen BCG employees worked on the project—codenamed “Aurora”—from October through late May, the report said.
The consultancy also produced a financial blueprint for postwar Gaza reconstruction, including relocation cost estimates for hundreds of thousands of Palestinian civilians.
It proposed that over 500,000 Palestinians could be relocated using $9,000-per-person “relocation packages.”
Additionally, BCG's internal analysis allegedly found that forced expulsion would be $23,000 cheaper per person than providing reconstruction aid inside Gaza.
Since late May, GHF has operated under joint Israeli-US management to oversee humanitarian aid delivery in Gaza.
Its work, however, has been marred by reports of chaos and frequent Israeli attacks on civilians gathered around aid distribution zones.
Over 500 Palestinians have reportedly been killed and nearly 4,000 wounded while attempting to receive or distribute food at GHF sites.
An article by Israel’s Haaretz newspaper cited anonymous Israeli soldiers admitting they were ordered to open fire on Palestinians trying to collect aid “to disperse the crowds.”
The US-backed aid strategy has come under intense criticism for what activists call a discriminatory and unworkable system.
Human rights organizations, analysts, and aid workers have condemned the US-Israeli plan, describing it as a violation of humanitarian principles.
International relief agencies have cautioned that Israeli-led aid mechanisms—particularly those supported by the US—are worsening the suffering in Gaza rather than easing it.
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