BCG got more than a million dollars for the GAZA Aid Barge project

A group of Boston Consulting Group has been paid for more than a million dollars to work with a private American company trying to transfer food to Gaza by sea, during the same period, began a controversial link with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, according to the Financial Times.

A team from the consulting company worked with Fogbow, which is the aid delivery group led by the old American military warriors, on a project funded by Qatar aimed at sailing in humanitarian aid to Al -Barg to Gaza from Cyprus, according to people familiar with the work.

Details of the task indicate that BCG was ready to alliance with multiple efforts in the private sector to provide relief to Gaza outside the UN-LED traditional system, and they argue with relief groups in risks that undermine human principles by introducing commercial considerations.

After a preliminary period, a free advice, BCG, continued to the Geneva -based Humanitarian Aid Foundation bill, more than a million dollars to work that helps Fogbow between March 2024 and February of this year, the people said.

MHAF is designed by Fogbow founders to work as an international financing channel for its plans, including tens of millions of dollars committed by the government of Qatar. The people said that BCG paid a reduced price.

Unlike the GHF work led by partners of the American defense practice of the company, the Fogbow project led BCG partners from Europe, including the practice of the company’s humanitarian response.

It included assistance in preparing the MHAF entity in Switzerland, and the collection of monthly reports that were shared with the government of Qatar, and other administrative tasks of the institution, according to the people familiar with the project.

“In the spring of 2024, BCG was involved by the Maritime Humanitarian Aid Foundation to support the early development of the institution,” the consulting company said in a statement.

“This participation followed the procedures for accepting a BCG client. The project was subject to a strong internal supervision, including internal audit and actual time assessment.”

Consulting company faces a reputation crisis as a result of the unveiling of its other Gaza works, which helps to prepare and provide operational advice to GHF, which extends from October 2024 until BCG heads closed the project in May.

foot open Earlier this month, the project extended to Gaza modeling after the war and the costs of transporting hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from the broken pocket.

BCG launched the American partners who led the GHF work, saying they had ignored the approval and disobedience ordered not to do modeling after the war. This week the company Stripped Two senior executives, including senior risk officials, for their leadership roles.

The Fogbow plan was depicted earlier in the war in Gaza and was an attempt to create a marine corridor from Cyprus to Gaza, a concept supported by the European Union and others as a way to overcome the barriers that Israel set when entering aid.

Israel had suffocated aid from an unlimited regime on traditional land roads, claiming that it was stolen by Hamas. Meanwhile, the right -wing ministers called on the extremists to use aid as a fiscal in the conflict.

A team from the Israeli government said that the Vogao team, which included former American diplomats and military officials, benefited from their ties in American and Israeli governments, and several Gulf states, to receive some approvals from the Israeli government, at least to establish the marine corridor.

It was possible to clear aid to weapons in Cyprus and transfer them to the boats to some extent on the coastal line in Gaza, which could have been bulldozed to allow boats to empty supplies.

The plans were finally overcome by President Joe Biden’s announcement that the US military would build a floating berth on the coastline in Gaza to transport aid from Cyprus starting in May 2024.

“People have fed us, and we are still trying to feed people. It is a hard work, as you know?” Said Cameron Hume, CEO of MHAF, and the former American ambassador to Algeria, South Africa and Indonesia. “We do this through partnership with reliable humanitarian organizations and work with logistics experts such as Fogbow and others.”

Fogbow eventually sent about 200 tons of aid to Gaza via the sidewalk, about 900 tons through the Israeli Ashdod port and on the same lands that sought to avoid it.

The American sidewalk separated several times in the waves of the Mediterranean, and it was surprised after less than a month of operations.

BCG MHAF staff supported “administrative and strategically”, according to a person familiar with the work. This has helped to determine the criteria that MHAF should use to evaluate contractors, including whether Fogbow should be replaced, and advice on employing the institution’s employees.

The person said that with the marine aid project exceeded by the American pavement, BCG staff also participated in the workshops to discuss how the institution can expand its work until after Gaza.

Two people are familiar with Fogbow plans that at any time Fogbow or BCG did not think about using private military contractors or transporting Palestinians.

Fogbow and MHAF say their shipments have provided more than 10 million meals in Gaza at a time when the Palestinians were facing levels of hunger, and that it also provided vital relief in Sudan and southern Sudan.

The United States and Israel supported GHF as the most effective way to provide assistance to Gaza, but it failed to secure multiple support and was convicted by the United Nations as a “fig paper” for the goals of the Israeli war. Sheob launch by hundreds of Gazan, who were criticized by Israeli soldiers on a trip to help in the distribution sites run by their security contractors.

BCG withdrew from a $ 4 million contract for GHF at the end of May, saying it would not now require payment.

GHF said that he provided nearly 70 million meals directly to the people of Gaza and accused the consulting company of “corporate cheese” to clean them.

“Under pressure from the United Nations and its affiliated institutions. BCG abandoned the task of supporting it once because it began to affect the final result,” she said on a social networking.

BCG rejected the response.