The chief executive of one of the world’s top consulting firms apologized to staff and admitted “process failures” in the company’s decision to help design and run a controversial Israel-backed group that supplanted the work of the United Nations to deliver aid to the Gaza Strip, according to an email obtained by The Washington Post.

A spokesperson for the firm said the company had terminated its contract with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and placed one of the senior partners leading the project on leave, pending an internal review.

A US consulting firm has canceled its contract with the controversial US and Israel-backed aid organization set up to distribute aid as famine conditions worsen in war-ravaged Gaza, a spokesperson for Boston Consulting Group told CNN.