First on Fox – In a war torn by war, where corruption and violence often determine who should eat and who goes hungry, a woman chose to challenge the system.
When a large part of the world had written off North Gaza as unreachable, the 30-year-old resident of East Jerusalem Sarah Awaidah and her team won a lifeline. Under the umbrella of Mena Aid, a regional partner coalition that is active via the Multifaith Alliance (MFA), and in coordination with Israeli authorities, she built a system that moved hundreds of food and supplies to Gaza – bypassing Hamas and private contractors who had hunger in a company.
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Distribution of help coordinated by Sarah Awaidah in Noord -Gaza last week. (Thanks to Multifaith Alliance.)
“After delivering 346 trucks from help between September 2024 and February 2025, we reached 100,622 families,” said Awaidah. “We decided to scale up the distribution on June 30, 2025, at a time when no one was able to get anything in Gaza because of looting, chaos and multiple obstruction layers on the ground.”
Awaidah team operated via Mena Aid and has designed an alternative route to deliver food and essential supplies.
In Israel, a trusted logistics company transported the goods from the port of Ashdod to Kerem Shalom and Zikim Crossings. In Gaza, another logistics partner transported transport, while Awaidah’s own staff – coordinated with Israel in real time – stated every shipment in the shade.
“As soon as the help moves to Gaza, it is picked up by another trusted logistics partner and guided by our own team members.
Sarah Awaidah, together with Multifaith Alliance, brought food to more than 100,000 families. Her success has now made her a target for profiteers.
“Our teams are present while discharging and accompanying the intersection to secure warehouses. In the warehouses we immediately start distribution – aimed at everything on the same day, and a maximum of two to three days. Nothing should be inactive.”
That level of control enabled them to achieve what few others could: reach North Gaza, where people had not seen any food for months.
Her breakthrough exposed a dark reality – an economy where hunger itself has become a company.
Distribution of help in Noord -Gaza last week. (Thanks to Multifaith Alliance.)
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“There are many businessmen in the private sector – some associated with Hamas and other political groups – who try to use help to earn millions,” she said. “Because there is such a shortage of goods and prices are so high, some stems are and sell it on the market. Others try to take over the supply routes so that they can resell it.”
According to Awaidah, the success of her team threatened those who benefit from scarcity. By flooding the market with free goods, they not only fed families, but they also drove the blown prices that were charged for basic principles such as sugar and flour.
“If there is no sugar in Gaza, and we bring it in for free, they can’t keep selling it at shameful prices,” she said. “So we became their problem.”
Israeli authorities also tried to cut these schemes in the private sector by closing routes that made commercial benefit possible. Although this helped to curb some corruption, it also made the remaining humanitarian channels more dangerous.
Hamas terrorists take positions in front of a hostage in Deir al-Balah, Central Gaza Strip, 8 February 2025. (AP)
“The private sector was blocked, and so did those who lost their profit to try harder to threaten and infiltrate the humanitarian route,” she said. “They couldn’t control it, so they tried to break it – and me.”
The attacks on her came quickly. “I started to receive death threats – not only from Gaza, but from the West Bank … some of them came from people I once trusted.”
One of the most painful betrayal came from someone close to her, said, “I even discovered that I had a relationship full of lies,” she said. “That person was part of a gang who wanted to use the assistance – and he also tried to use me. But I was determined. I made sure that he, and people like him, never came close. And now my life is in danger because I refused to have the private sector chewing for commercial profit or bending their goals.”
Auxiliary employees transferred food to Gazanen in the northern part of the enclave last week. (Multifaith Alliance)
For Awaidah, the families she helps are the reason she refuses to stop. “We have made a distribution model based on verified beneficiary lists, using ID checks to guarantee fair and worthy access to food,” she said. “People stood calmly in line, organized, even in impossible circumstances. That is something that the media rarely see – the dignity and patience of the people.”
In the past month alone, her group delivered 75 trucks and has another 112 on the way of Ashdod. Every day she focuses on the mission, even when the threats grow.
“What broke me the most were not the threats of strangers – it realized that people were close to me,” she said. “It is easier to combat enemies from outside. But if it comes from your own circle, it cuts deeper. Nevertheless, it only confirms that we are doing something good. If they lose about this, it means that the mechanism we have built works. It means that it is safe. It means that they could not find it to manipulate it, so they tried to break me.”
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She knows the risks. But for her the alternative is worse. “I won’t stop. And they won’t stop me,” she said, “I will continue to help the people who need it, regardless of the threats. That is my promise.”
For Awaidah, getting up against corruption is against steep personal costs. But for the families in Gaza who have been in her food lines, she has already changed what felt impossible: getting a good part of the help without a price tag.
