Summary
- US legal group urges revoking Gaza Humanitarian
Foundation charter.
- GHF is accused of involvement in war crimes in Gaza.
- Thousands have been harmed near GHF aid distribution
points since May.
- CCR demands a stop to GHF’s harmful charity activities.
- UN experts call for GHF dismantling and accountability.
A meeting with Jennings, a Democrat, was urgently sought last week by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), which claimed that Jennings has a legal duty to sue in the state's Chancery Court to have the charter of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) revoked because the alleged charity "is complicit in war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide."
Jennings "has neither responded" to the group's request, according to CCR, adding that he has "nor publicly addressed the serious claims raised against the Delaware-registered entity."
"GHF woefully fails to adhere to fundamental humanitarian principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality, and independence and has proven to be an opportunistic and obsequious entity masquerading as a humanitarian organization,"
CCR asserted.
"Since the start of its operations in late May, at least 1,400 Palestinians have died seeking aid, with at least 859 killed at or near GHF sites, which it operates in close coordination with the Israeli government and U.S. private military contractors."
One of those contractors, former U.S. Army Green Beret Col. Anthony Aguilar, quit his job and blew the whistle on what he said he saw while working at GHF aid sites.
"What I saw on the sites, around the sites, to and from the sites, can be described as nothing but war crimes, crimes against humanity, violations of international law,"
Aguilar told Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman earlier this month.
"This is not hyperbole. This is not platitudes or drama. This is the truth... The sites were designed to lure, bait aid, and kill."
Jennings has used this power before, according
to CCR's letter of August 5. Following their guilty pleas to money laundering
and other offenses, she launched a lawsuit in 2019 to disband shell
corporations connected to former Trump campaign executives Paul Manafort and
Richard Gates.
A group of United Nations experts earlier this
month called for the "immediate dismantling" of GHF and "holding
it and its executives accountable and allowing experienced and humanitarian
actors from the U.N. and civil society alike to take back the reins of managing
and distributing lifesaving aid." CCR's request comes after their call.