Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Global Change, Peace and Security, 2026 (ESCI, Scopus)
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a humanitarian aid distribution mechanism supported by Israel and operated by US-based private contractors, that operated in Gaza between 26 May and October 2025 has raised critical concerns about the compliance of its assistance and organizational policy with the fundamental principles of humanitarian aid. Incidents including the inadequate and ineffective distribution of aid through selective and restricted access, as well as the complicity with Israeli authorities, have revealed that GHF has become an instrument of structural violence, reinforcing a regime of deprivation that may give rise to atrocity crimes under international law. In this regard, the current paper examines how GHF's operations become a tool of weaponisation of humanitarian aid in light of international humanitarian law and international criminal law, with particular reference to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. It conducts an extensive thematic analysis of the reports published by the main international humanitarian organisations working in Gaza. In this way, the study contributes to the bourgeoning literature on the weaponisation of humanitarian aid at the nexus of international humanitarian law, international criminal law and the operations of international humanitarian organisations.