A shocking investigation by the Financial Times has uncovered a secretive U.S.-backed operation that aimed to engineer the forced displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from Gaza, under the guise of humanitarian aid.

At the heart of this scheme was the “Aurora” project, a covert initiative involving the American consulting giant Boston Consulting Group (BCG). Originally presented as a post-war recovery effort, the project was in fact a blueprint for ethnic cleansing. Internal documents revealed financial models proposing $9,000 “resettlement packages” for each displaced Palestinian, totalling up to $5 billion. Far from being a reconstruction plan, Aurora laid the groundwork for the permanent removal of over half a million Palestinians.

The project was orchestrated in coordination with the newly formed “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation,” a body backed by the United States and Israel. Far from delivering aid, the Foundation operated with military precision, its food convoys guarded by Israeli troops and American security contractors. More than 600 Palestinians were killed while desperately trying to reach these distribution centres.

Though BCG now claims it was unaware of the project's full scope, over a dozen of its consultants worked on Aurora for months, many linked to U.S. defence circles. Two senior partners have since been dismissed, and the firm has launched an internal probe. But questions remain: Why were consultants of Middle Eastern descent excluded from the project? How could a company of BCG’s scale remain blind to the political and moral weight of its involvement?

The so-called “humanitarian” façade was shattered when UN officials condemned the Foundation as a “death trap,” exposing the plan as a calculated attempt to turn humanitarian aid into a weapon of displacement. For Gaza’s besieged population, this scandal is yet another reminder that even aid can come wrapped in occupation.