Save the Children halts ties with BCG over Gaza displacement work

Save the Children International has ended its long-running collaboration with the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), calling the US consultancy’s role in Gaza-related projects “utterly unacceptable”.

In a staff-wide email dated 8 July, CEO Inger Ashing referenced Financial Times reporting that BCG helped launch the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) and supported the US security firm providing armed personnel for GHF-run aid sites in Gaza.

GHF, a militarised aid programme serving Israeli war objectives, has faced widespread condemnation from humanitarian agencies. The organisation is backed by both the US and Israel.

The FT also revealed that BCG developed cost estimates for forcibly relocating large numbers of Palestinians out of Gaza—work Save the Children slammed as unethical and dehumanising.

“The modelling of a plan to forcibly relocate Palestinians from Gaza, and the calculation of a per person cost for displacement, devoid of any humanity, disregards fundamental rights and dignity, and raises serious ethical and legal questions,” Ashing wrote.