‘Indiscriminate Shooting’: US Whistleblower Speaks Out on Gaza Aid Sites

25-year US Army veteran Anthony Aguilar, who worked as a contractor for the US and Israeli-backed so-called “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation,” told Zeteo that the project need to be “shut down” and is an “appendage” of the Israeli military and cog in a machine that has deliberately killed hundreds of Palestinians.

In Part 1 of his interview with Zeteo, Aguilar, a former Green Beret and retired lieutenant colonel, revealed that the GHF ‘aid’ sites were “built as death traps” and featured Palestinians trying to survive “indiscriminate” shooting. The GHF project has received at least $30 million in funding from the Trump administration.

Several episodes Aguilar highlighted underscore the actual horrors unfolding at the sites.

Aguilar recounted a young boy named Amir who approached him and another contractor at one of the sites:

“I said to him, ‘you’re not forgotten. The world cares, people care, we care. You’re not alone.’ He probably didn’t understand the words that I was speaking but I think he could probably understand the sentiment…he puts his hands on my cheeks. And his little hands are very emaciated, and the fingernails are dried and brittle. You could tell, like just all of the signs of someone that is starving. All of the signs. I mean, these aren’t things that are made up. That’s not Hamas propaganda. Saw it, touched it. And he puts his hands on my face and he kisses me on the lips and he says, ‘Thank you’ in English.”

Soon thereafter, bullets from the Israeli military started flying.

“Palestinians started dropping to the ground, and Amir was amongst them. So this young boy that traveled eight kilometers, eight or nine kilometers, from his home to get aid, a very small amount of aid, thanks us. Gratitude. And ends up dead.”

Watch the full interview above to hear Anthony Aguilar lay out in painful detail the violence he saw inflicted upon Palestinians, the dysfunction and chaos of the so-called “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation,” and much, much more.

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