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An Israeli restaurant proprietor quits a controversial Gaza meals program after criticism
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An Israeli restaurant proprietor quits a controversial Gaza meals program after criticism

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Protesters enter Miznon {Hardware} Lane in Melbourne, Australia, July 4. Demonstrators clashed with workers on the restaurant, which is co-owned by Shahar Segal, who had joined the Israeli- and U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Basis as a spokesperson. Segal has since left his function with the controversial Gaza meals distribution group.

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TEL AVIV, Israel — Israeli entrepreneur Shahar Segal, who runs fashionable eating places all over the world, has left his function as a spokesman for a meals distribution group in Gaza, amid calls to boycott his eating places due to the a whole lot of Palestinians killed whereas approaching the group’s meals distribution websites in Gaza.

Segal’s resignation got here shortly after NPR and Israeli media reported on his function with the U.S.- and Israeli-backed group, the Gaza Humanitarian Basis, or GHF.

People carry relief supplies from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.

Protests erupted in Melbourne, Australia, July 4 exterior a department of Miznon, a restaurant co-owned by Segal and his enterprise companion, movie star Israeli chef Eyal Shani. Dozens of demonstrators threw chairs and smashed the restaurant’s glass door whereas chanting anti-Israel slogans, and three individuals are going through legal fees in reference to the incident, in line with Australian media.

A meals charity and social justice activist group in Israel mentioned Monday it was severing ties with a well-liked nightlife venue in Tel Aviv that hosts considered one of Segal’s eating places, in protest of Segal’s earlier affiliation with GHF. The Tel Aviv nightlife venue additionally criticized Segal’s previous involvement with GHF.

Palestinians walk back, carrying parcels

GHF advised NPR in a press release that Segal’s volunteer function had ended as a result of the group expanded its communications crew. Segal didn’t remark concerning the backlash in opposition to his restaurant enterprise.

“My work with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has always been rooted in the desire to support those affected by the ongoing war. This volunteer role was always designed to be temporary and has now concluded,” Segal wrote on June 6 in an English-language Instagram put up.

Greater than 500 Palestinians have been killed whereas approaching GHF websites, Palestinian officers say

Segal and Shani’s restaurant empire consists of dozens of Israeli eateries all over the world — amongst them, the Michelin-starred Shmoné in New York Metropolis.

Segal had been serving as GHF’s spokesperson for the Israeli media because it started distributing meals in Gaza in Could, regardless of repeated warnings from worldwide humanitarian organizations that the inspiration’s distribution mannequin might endanger civilians.

Palestinians carry bags containing food and humanitarian aid packages delivered by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a U.S.-backed organization, in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, June 9.

Palestinians carry baggage containing meals and humanitarian help packages delivered by the Gaza Humanitarian Basis, a U.S.-backed group, in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, June 9.

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Johnnie Moore, a U.S. evangelical chief and marketing campaign adviser for President Trump’s first election bid in 2016, took over as the top of GHF, after its first director, a U.S. Marine veteran, resigned, saying the group couldn’t adhere to humanitarian rules.

In line with Gaza well being officers, not less than 545 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli navy whereas making an attempt to achieve the inspiration’s meals distribution factors, that are situated close to navy zones. A U.N. official has referred to as the meals facilities a “dying entice.” The U.N. and main humanitarian help teams have refused to cooperate with GHF’s efforts.

Extreme Israeli limitations on meals getting into Gaza have pushed rampant starvation amongst Palestinians. The U.S. and Israel initiated the brand new meals distribution system to interchange the previous U.N.-run help system in Gaza, arguing it will isolate Hamas from benefitting from the help.

Segal had constantly defended the group’s work, arguing it was the one approach to ship meals to Gazans with out that help falling into the arms of Hamas.

GHF defends its work, saying it has delivered tens of millions of meals to Palestinians with personal American contractors on the bottom in Gaza, and that it’s increasing its efforts to achieve extra Palestinians amid the humanitarian disaster. It says it has urged the Israeli navy to make sure safer entry for Palestinians to GHF meals websites, and accuses the U.N. and media shops of spreading Hamas propaganda about lethal assaults on food-seekers to smear the group.

“Instead of hurling insults and promoting Hamas’ false propaganda from the sidelines, the UN and humanitarian groups should be working collaboratively with GHF to maximize the amount of aid securely delivered into Gaza,” GHF mentioned in a latest assertion.

On June 26, NPR printed a narrative on Segal and the inspiration. That story was picked up by the meals information web site Eater, and there have been subsequent calls on social media to boycott his chain of Miznon eating places.

On June 28, Segal notified journalists in Israel that he would not reply to GHF media inquiries.

Backlash in Israel in opposition to the Gaza meals group

The backlash didn’t cease on the world meals scene. A few of Segal’s Israeli enterprise companions additionally publicly criticized his earlier involvement with GHF.

Killed and wounded Palestinians, after the Israeli attack, are being brought to al-Nasser hospital Killed and wounded Palestinians, after the Israeli attack, are being brought to al-Nasser hospital, on June 17, 2025.

Teder, a well-liked cultural and nightlife venue in Tel Aviv that’s dwelling to Segal’s restaurant Romano, posted a Hebrew-language assertion on Instagram: “In recent weeks we’ve become aware of our partner Shahar Segal’s involvement with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. We want to make it unequivocally clear: Teder has no connection to GHF, and we strongly oppose the existence of such an organization. Humanitarian aid must never serve as a tool of control over civilians, and people shouldn’t die trying to get a little flour to what’s left of their families.”

The assertion additionally described Segal as “a private individual whose decisions do not reflect the values of Teder,” including that his function with GHF was a totally volunteer place. “We believe his intentions may have been good, but that doesn’t change the fact that GHF is an organization — and part of a regime — we believe should not be supported.”

That sentiment was echoed by Tradition of Solidarity, an Israeli social justice activist group that works with Teder to distribute meals to weak communities. The group introduced it was severing ties with the venue over Segal’s earlier GHF involvement.

“Learning that Shahar Segal, a co-owner of Teder, served as GHF’s spokesperson shocked us,” the group mentioned in an English-language Instagram assertion Tuesday. “This was not a marginal connection — it was a deliberate use of his public image to legitimize a project that acts as a smokescreen for policies of starvation, displacement, and dehumanization in Gaza. … In practice, GHF has become part of the bureaucratic infrastructure of forced population transfer — a crime against humanity. We will not associate with any initiative linked to such atrocities or to the use of food as a weapon.”

A biting op-ed in Israel’s left-leaning newspaper Haaretz, titled “Would You Like a Killing Field in Gaza With Your Overpriced, Israeli-cool Pita?”, detailed how Tel Aviv’s cultural elite — lengthy a core a part of Segal’s buyer base — was turning in opposition to him.

In a press release to NPR, Segal mentioned, “I didn’t quit GHF, because there was nothing to quit. I volunteered to help at the beginning.”

NPR’s Daniel Estrin contributed to this story from Tel Aviv.

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