London – The controversial US and Israel supported Gaza Humanitrian Foundation (GHF), whose operations have launched a chaotic start in the Palestinian territory this week in the Palestinian territory that was used by the war, states that after three months they completed its Swiss operation. The step comes when the Swiss authorities said that GHF had violated the rules for foundations registered in this country. GHF told CBS News that the only operations from the United States would run.
The legal complication for GHF in Switzerland was led as the Ministry of Health of Hamas that a Palestinian was killed and 47 others were wounded when Israeli forces fired shots as shots People searched for food at one of their hub sales centers in southern Gaza on Tuesday. In a statement on Tuesday, the Israeli defense forces said that troops had only fired “warning shots” in order to restore the order at the location. GHF later said in a statement that “no shots were fired on Palestinian crowds” and “there were no victims”. Some injured Palestinians were seen in video material of the incident confirmed by CBS News, which showed hundreds of people in the distribution center.
GHF was made little public, including the funds that finance it. CBS News was informed of a source that GHF has employed at least 300 American contractors, all of whom are heavily armed and have received “as much ammunition as possible”.
The humanitarian foundation in Gaza said, according to a document received by CBS News, which seems to have been written by the group, has registered in both Delaware and Geneva, Switzerland. The Swiss “partner” was set up to “address donors that would prefer to participate outside the US structure,” the document says.
“The Swiss GHF board and the management team will reflect those of the US GHF exactly and comply with the same principles, mission and values,” says the document.
A separate document in which the Gaza Humanitrian Foundation in Switzerland is to be registered of January 31, 2025 was published as part of the country’s commercial register. The foundation will be registered from February 12th.
According to the Swiss registration document “, the foundation only pursues non -profit and philanthropic goals for the benefit of people who provide support for material, psychological or health reasons and in particular for humanitarian aid for the humanitarian aid affected by the conflict in Gaza strips, including the secure provision of food, water, medicine and reconstruction.”
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It lists three people as the guide of the Swiss Foundation: David Papazian, from whom the document comes from Armenia, but is based in Great Britain. Lolk Samuel Marcel Henderson, an American in Arlington, Virginia; and David Kohler from Switzerland.
Subsequent documents from May 19 and 23 on May 23, the removal of the Swiss National Cabbage from the Board of Directors of the Foundation and then the end of the Swiss auditing company OGH expert Comptables et Fiscales SAS role as an auditor of the foundation.
The Federal Supervisory Authority of Switzerland for foundations, known as ESA, said CBS News on Wednesday that the Swiss branch of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation “currently does not meet various legal obligations”.
The ESA said that the Swiss branch of the auxiliary group does not have the necessary signed member of its member of Switzerland that does not have the at least three board members who are required by Swiss statutes and that they do not apparently have a Swiss bank account, a valid Swiss address or a final auditor – all requirements for foundations such as GHF that are registered in the country.
“Based on this information, the ESA assumes that the Swiss Foundation has not yet started its activities and is therefore inactive,” the authority told CBS News. “The ESA has informed the basis of its legal requirements and asked to clarify the situation. The necessary explanations are currently underway.”
A Swiss non -governmental organization, Trial International, said she submitted two legal submissions to the Swiss government on May 20 and 21. Federal Act on private security services abroad.
The legal submissions should urgently conclude “potential violations by the GHF of various rules of national and international law, in particular with regard to” private security services “in the context of the activities of the foundation, such as the militarized security of sales points and the control of individuals,” said the NGO in a statement.
Switzerland “has a moral, but also a special legal obligation to ensure that companies that work from their territory respect the Geneva conventions. This is anchored in the first article of the Geneva conventions,” said the international director of Trial International, Philip Grant, CBS News.
“So we just wanted to understand what they did” through the Swiss entity, he said.
Grant said it was unclear how much GHF activity actually took place in Geneva, which was part of the motivation for the submissions of his group. It was also found whether GHF had requested and received the necessary permits for the inclusion of private military services, the use of which was strictly regulated in the country according to Swiss law.
In response to the request from CBS Newity to Clarity, GHF said on Wednesday: “The only GHF company that is used today is the foundation, which was set up by Loik Henderson in February 2025 in February 2025. This is the only assignment that operates and progresses through GHF. Swiss unity was created as a condition figure.
James Smith, a doctor who worked in Gaza, told CBS News that both the presence of armed contractors in auxiliary distribution centers and the locations of the GHF hubs in the south of Gaza will raise red flags for humanitarian workers. He said the location of the hub could possibly serve to violently displace the population of the Gaza Strip south of the strip.
“They are unworthy. They are inhuman. We saw how people were corrected in cages in the back heat,” said Smith.
Smith pointed out concerns who have refused by the United Nations who rejected themselves with the organization, about the methods of GHF and even “some of the people who have worked for GHF up to the last few days and have since resigned that they cannot adhere to the humanitarian principles if they continue to work for this person”.
“The risks of armed military actors, especially those who are a conflict and also provide humanitarian aid, should and are all -round and are not something that a renowned humanitarian organization, academic of humanitarianism or humanitarian practitioners, should ever support,” said Smith.
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