Last night the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, the U.S.- and Israel-backed organization that is directly feeding Palestinian civilians in Gaza, sent out a statement alleging that a convoy carrying its workers was attacked by Hamas. According to the statement, there were five deaths, though that number has now been raised to eight. Additionally, the GHF noted in an update, the foundation still fears some of its workers may have been taken hostage.

“We carefully considered closing our sites today given the heightened security risks and safety concerns, but we decided that the best response to Hamas’ cowardly murderers was to keep delivering food for the people of Gaza who are counting on us,” GHF said this morning. “We will not be deterred from our mission towards providing food security for the Palestinian people in Gaza.”

Interestingly, evidence in support of GHF’s claims came in the form of a Hamas announcement around that time taking credit for an attack on what it claimed were members of a rival Palestinian clan that has reportedly been linked to the Palestinian Authority and has support from Israel. The clan, however, claims it was not targeted last night.

The likeliest explanation, then, is that GHF was indeed attacked by Hamas, which may or may not have misread its target. Either way, Hamas has admittedly attacked those it perceived as supportive of the Palestinian civilian population and aligned with American-backed humanitarians.

As GHF noted in its original statement, Hamas telegraphed this tragic turn of events: “This attack did not happen in a vacuum. For days, Hamas has openly threatened our team, our aid workers, and the civilians who receive aid from us. These threats were met with silence.”

Indeed, there are only two sides in this conflict and those lining up against GHF have therefore been aligning themselves, intentionally or by default, with Hamas—a terror organization governing the Gaza Strip that is responsible for the massacre of dozens of Americans and the taking hostage of others.

Which is what makes the actions by the Boston Consulting Group, a U.S. firm that was involved in GHF logistics, so bizarre. At the first sign of a concerted public-relations campaign against GHF by Hamas-backed NGOs (including UN agencies), BCG pulled off the project entirely and sought to distance itself from GHF. Now BCG appears to have thrown two senior employees under the bus. From the Washington Free Beacon:

“The international consulting firm Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has spent years training Hamas-friendly Qatar’s government workers, including after Oct. 7. It agreed to endorse Chinese Communist Party principles in 2023 in order to secure a six-figure contract advising city officials in Beijing on artificial intelligence. Now, it’s apologizing—after ‘exiting’ two partners who worked for an aid project in Gaza backed by the U.S. and Israeli governments.”

What this tells us is that public pressure against GHF has achieved its primary objective: enabling the starvation of Gazans who otherwise would have been fed by GHF. The Beacon report notes that there was an internal revolt over the company’s participation in feeding Gazans from ostensibly “pro-Palestinian” employees who favored a system of humanitarian aid that would go through Hamas and keep the terror group in power.

Again, there are two sides here: The U.S. is on one, and an Iranian proxy waging a hot war against America is on the other. There is no way to describe those who pressured BCG and who engaged in a massive media campaign to discredit GHF other than saying they are objectively pro-Hamas.

Though in fairness to the anti-American side of the conflict, the terror coalition is led by Hamas, but there are other groups involved. One of them is the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, an extremely popular terror group among the American left and especially on college campuses. I have written about their seeming ubiquity and their long history of violence against innocents a fair amount over the course of the current conflict because the PFLP continues to set up front groups, forcing the U.S. government to play Whack-a-Mole to stop Americans from funding them.

One such group is Addameer, which the U.S. just sanctioned as a cutout for the PFLP. In response, the UN’s high-profile Mideast rapporteur and virulent anti-Semite Francesca Albanese declared her “full solidarity” with the PFLP-linked organization.

The PFLP has been involved in the post-Oct. 7 terror war against Israeli civilians, has pledged its fealty to Hamas in that war, and has participated in the kidnapping of innocents including, reportedly, the young Bibas children who were subsequently and brutally executed by Palestinians. Just so we’re clear on who and what Francesca Albanese lends her “full solidarity” to.

Again, there are only two sides in this war. The UN has repeatedly chosen to side with Hamas (and the PFLP). Employees of American firms are pressuring their bosses to do the same. All the while, actual Palestinian civilians are murdered in the streets by Hamas but fed by U.S.- and Israel-backed humanitarian coordinators. You can’t be on the side of the UN and Hamas and also be on the side of Gazan civilians and American hostages. So pick one.