BCG monument to the United Nations before helping the Gaza assisting plan

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Boston Consulting Group has put the United Nations Refugee Agency to work for its humanitarian effort in Gaza, months before helping to launch a widely -scale competitor who marginalized the United Nations.

BCG I approached Israel’s military campaign in late 2023, with a wide range of free actions that have never been broadcast, according to people familiar with the matter and correspondence that the Times financial sees.

The work of the company related to Gaza has sparked controversy since it was revealed that BCG has continued to support the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, an initiative supported by Israel and the United States, which has seized food to a large extent in the pocket.

Gazan should wander in tens of kilometers along the risky roads to reach GHF food sites. Dozens of civilians were killed by Israeli forces when trying to reach them.

The GHF program, which is concentrated in southern Gaza and works by American private security contractors, has been controversially marginalized by the long -term system run by UNRWA and other groups.

It was possible for the project to lead the bcg -caring consultants with health care specialists or in the Middle East, according to a stadium for agency officials from December 2023 that FT saw it.

“BCG has a long history of support in the aftermath of disaster and humanitarian crises,” I read one of the chip, over a timetable for dozens of earthquakes, air events and epidemics on which BCG responses worked.

In contrast, the work for GHF appeared from the American defensive practice of the company. Phil Reilly, the former CIA worker who leads the security of GHF, was a private -working -time consultant for the BCG defense for eight years until GHF was founded at the end of last year.

BCG stopped and coordinated its work with the project, saying that it originated from a feasibility study that the company helped produce in October 2024 on a free basis, but this subsequent work is “unauthorized.” BCG partners were launched in American defensive practice.

BCG has been keen to find a way to work with UNRWA until January 2024, according to correspondence and people familiar with this issue. Advisors were initially presented to UNRWA by the United Nations Refugees.

The company has developed a new strategy for collecting donations for UNRWA and helping to update the agency’s humanitarian response plan, saying it “can provide strategic guidance for the leadership team and innovative solutions to treat crises and effects.” In the end, the two sides did not agree on a project.

“During the stock exchanges, BCG looked very eager to support UNRWA and very real, only they had tangible offers and had no concrete ideas,” said UNRWA spokesman.

BCG said that after Hamas’s attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, it conducted “early discussion on possible support” for UNRWA, “as we did with dozens of humanitarian groups.”

“While we are working with many United Nations agencies, in January 2024, after the financing was suspended to UNRWA by the United States, the European Union and other governments, BCG decided that it will not work with UNRWA,” she added.

UNRWA has always been criticized by parts of the Israeli political establishment, which says that its mandate to care for Palestinian refugees has tightened, instead of helping to resolve it, the Israeli -Palestinian conflict.

Israeli officials accused 19 agency employees, which number 13,000 in Gaza, of participating in the October 7 attacks, and many countries stopped financing while the United Nations achieved allegations. UNRWA has completed the decades of all 19, one of which is now returned, although the United Nations said it was not able to “ratify most of the information provided” by Israel independently.

The European Union and the United Kingdom have since prepared funding. The United States did not.