Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib

Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib (; born April 25, 1990) is a Palestinian American humanitarian activist and blogger. He is the founder and executive director of Project Unified Assistance, a nonprofit organization working towards the establishment of a humanitarian airport in the Gaza Strip, to be run and operated by the United Nations. He is also a senior fellow with the Atlantic Council, and the founder of the organization's Realign For Palestine project.

Early life and education Alkhatib's family is originally from the Gaza Strip. His grandparents had lived in Hamama and Ramla, but left in 1948 during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.

Alkhatib was born in Saudi Arabia, where his father worked as a United Nations physician. He and his family returned to Gaza in 2000, and his father began working at the Jabalia refugee camp. Alkhatib's family was devoutly Muslim. As a child, Alkhatib hoped to become a politician or diplomat. for a one-year-long cultural exchange program, part of the U.S. Department of State-sponsored Youth Exchange and Study Program. He spent the year in Pacifica, California, where he learned meditation from his host mother, a Buddhist and retired social worker. He also attended sessions with Living Room Dialogue, a Jewish-Palestinian group based in San Mateo, marking the first time he had spoken to Jews or Israelis. He applied for and received political asylum in the U.S., where he studied marketing and became interested in social entrepreneurship. In 2023, he earned a master's degree in intelligence studies at American Military University. The Forward, Haaretz, Newsweek, The Times of Israel, The Jewish Chronicle, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Alkhatib is a Nonresident Senior Fellow with the Atlantic Council, and also leads the Council's Realign For Palestine project, which advocates for "nonviolence and the two-nation solution as the only credible, humane path forward for peace between the Palestinian and Israeli people." He has written a book, Hamas and Its Two Million Hostages

In June 2025, he appeared on an episode of Surrounded by Jubilee Media, titled "Debating Resistance: 20 Protestors vs 1 Palestinian" in which he debated against pro-Palestinian activists, and argued that, in carrying out the October 7 attacks, Hamas was responsible for "dooming Gazans to the hell that Israel has wrought."

Project Unified Assistance

Alkhatib has had a lifelong interest in aviation and desire to work in the field, especially during the time when Gaza's international airport was operational. After the destruction of the Gaza airport by Israeli air strikes during the Second Intifada, he was convinced of the need "to play a role in restoring aviation services to the people of Gaza". Several relatives, including his uncle Abdullah Shehada, were killed by an Israeli airstrike in 2023. Alkhatib has vocally opposed Hamas since he was a teenager, and has been highly critical of Al Jazeera's coverage of the Gaza War, saying the publication is guilty of spreading Hamas propaganda.