"Bigger Story" (Part 2)

13 Sivan 5785 

(Part 1)

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On May 8, 2025, it was announced that "former executive director of the (UN) World Food Programme and Nobel Peace Prize laureate David Beasley" would head the newly established Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) whose aim is to provide aid to Gazan civilians.

Beasley, a former governor of South Carolina, was appointed as the WFP chief during President Trump's first term in office. He served in the job until December 2023, and is highly respected in the humanitarian community and within the UN system.

In December 2020 he received the Nobel Peace prize on behalf of the UN agency he headed.

Beasley's leadership of the new Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) would give it significant credibility and could convince the UN and other international aid organizations to work with the new foundation.

A source close to Beasley said he's negotiating the urgent reintroduction of aid in Gaza as a condition of the GHF's operations and his leadership.  

...the new foundation wants to partner with NGOs, UN agencies, and civil society organizations to facilitate the movement and distribution of their aid through the GHF's secure distribution infrastructure in order to ensure the aid reaches intended beneficiaries without diversion or delay.  (Source)

However, he is not now the head of the GHF and I cannot find any report on why not.  It isn't even mentioned on his Wiki entry, so in the end, maybe he never formally accepted the job.  

In any case, Jake Wood became the head of the organization, but he didn't last long...

Before I go on, I want to include some info that didn't make it into the introduction.  This is not a thing of recent invention.  It was already in the planning stages only a couple of months after the war started.

...According to a report by The New York Times, the idea of an Israeli-backed private food distribution program was discussed in December 2023. Throughout 2024, Israeli officials worked with private American security contractors, primarily CIA veteran Philip Reilly, to develop a plan. Reilly later launched the security company Safe Reach Solutions (SRS) in January 2025, which was tasked with securing food distribution sites in Gaza. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation was registered in February 2025 in both Delaware and Geneva.  (Source)

So, American Marine veteran Jake Wood was head of the GHF beginning ??? - curiously no beginning date is mentioned anywhere, only that he served for "two months." He resigned on May 25, 2025, giving as his reason:

...he said, it had become "clear that it is not possible to implement this plan while also strictly adhering to the humanitarian principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality, and independence, which I will not abandon."  (Source)

This is beginning to look like a bait-and-switch operation.  Who is the current executive [now "chairman"] of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation???  Since "June" 2025, that would be (Reverend Dr.) Johnnie Moore.  

Besides campaigning globally for the the rights of persecuted Chr*stians to proselytize as part of their religious obligation, he has been very active in efforts to make peace in the Middle East.  Here are some highlights from his Wiki entry:

...Moore played a key role in the release of the historic Bahrain Declaration calling for rights for religious minorities in the Middle East. Days after the move of the Jerusalem embassy, Moore led a multi-faith peace delegation from the Kingdom of Bahrain on a pilgrimage in Jerusalem.

As part of a group of evangelical advisors to President Trump, Moore met with the Saudi crown prince and discussed the death of Jamal Khashoggi as well as human rights issues. In 2018, with a group led by Joel C. Rosenberg, and invited by the UAE government, Moore met with senior government officials for four days. He also met with the World Council of Churches.

In 2019, he visited Saudi Arabia on 9/11 and is an advocate of the Crown Prince's Vision 2030 reform agenda, as well as advocating for persecuted Hindus in India. Moore praised the Kingdom of Jordan for its interfaith efforts as well as praising the president of Azerbaijan as a model of peaceful coexistence.

Moore referred to the ISIS threat against Christians in Iraq and Syria as a “once in a 1000 year threat to Christianity.” He helped raise money for and coordinate the evacuation of selected Christian refugees from Northern Iraq to Slovakia over Christmas in 2015. 

On September 11, 2019, he joined forces with Muhammad Alissa of the Muslim World League to issue a joint statement calling for cooperation between evangelicals like Moore and Muslims with a focus on protecting Christian holy sites. Moore is a critic of Iran and has called for the Iranian people to take back their religion from their supreme leader. He praised Pakistan's prime minister for the arrest of a leading terrorist and in 2019 his advocacy was credited for the release of an 82-year-old Muslim prisoner of conscience in Pakistan, Abdul Shakoor.

Moore was among an evangelical delegation who met with Egyptian government officials and was the guest of Egypt's president for the grand opening of the Middle East's largest cathedral.

He now serves on the ADL Task Force for Protecting Minority Groups in the Middle East. He participated in a panel as part of his work with the ADL on inter-religious tolerance in the UAE.

In June 2025 he was appointed the executive chairman of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.

Dr. Johnnie Moore on Faith-Driven
Leadership for Gaza Relief

Continue to Part 3.