Gaza Humanitarian Foundation Says at Least 8 Dead Following Hamas Attack

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation continued aid distribution in Gaza on Thursday, less than 24 hours after at least eight workers with the group were killed in a Hamas attack. 

“This has been a painful day but our team made the decision that the best way to honor the memory of our local Palestinian colleagues was to press on, proceeding with food distribution today, as planned,” the Rev. Johnnie Moore, an American evangelical leader and the executive chairman of the humanitarian aid group, wrote on X Thursday morning. 

“We provided food for 2.6 million meals today,” he added. 

In addition to the eight Palestinian Gaza Humanitarian Foundation workers who were killed, some were injured, and some are believed to have been taken hostage.

“We are still collecting more information on the deadly and unprovoked attack on our dedicated local team members and volunteers,” John Acree, interim executive director of the foundation, said Thursday.

“We will not be deterred from our mission towards providing food security for the Palestinian people in Gaza,” Acree added.  

Moore, who was just named the executive chairman of the humanitarian aid group at the start of June, shared a statement from the organization, explaining Hamas targeted “a bus carrying more than two-dozen members of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation team, local Palestinians working side-by-side with the U.S.” 

“Fathers, brothers, sons, and friends” are among those who were attacked, according to the group. “Our hearts are broken and our thoughts and prayers are with every victim, every family, and every person still unaccounted for.” 

Moore recently met with U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee in Jerusalem. Huckabee shared a photo with Moore Thursday morning and expressed his sorrow over the news of the attack. 

“Sadly Hamas murdered several Palestinians who were helping distribute food, which shows Hamas will starve and murder their own people to stay in power,” Huckabee wrote on X. 

The humanitarian group has distributed 19 million means since it launched operations on May 26. 

“All [Gaza Humanitarian Foundation] wants to do is feed people. That’s literally all,” Moore recently said. 

The group has received criticism from the United Nations following reports of violence at aid distribution sites that reportedly left some dead. 

“The controversial new aid initiative run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation bypasses the work of UN aid agencies which have repeatedly appealed for unimpeded access to Gaza in order to bring in thousands of tonnes of supplies,” United Nations News wrote on June 3. 

Moore condemned the U.N. on Thursday for not condemning “Hamas calls for violence” against the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, adding, the “UN—worse, much worse, than silence they continue their vicious slander against our mission. A mission with one goal: FEED GAZA!” 

“The principle of impartiality does not mean neutrality,” Moore wrote on X. “There is good and evil in this world. What we are doing is good and what Hamas did to these Gazans is absolute evil.”

The U.N. did not immediately respond to The Daily Signal’s request for comment.

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