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Gaza: A former security official of the aid organization GHF, established in Gaza with the cooperation of the US government and Israel, has exposed the involvement of the Israeli forces and the organization in war crimes.
Former US soldier Anthony Aguilar, who resigned after witnessing war crimes in Gaza, told US Senator Chris Vanholen in an interview that he was assigned to ‘Site 2’, one of the sites designated by the US aid organization (GHF) in Gaza.
He said that one day he was on duty in the control room of Site No. 2 and was reviewing the distribution of aid when he saw some children who were being crushed in the crowd and rush. A man lifted them onto his shoulders to avoid being crushed. Because Site No. 2 is narrower and smaller than all four other sites.
The former American official then said that after seeing the children, an Israeli military colonel with us in the control room told us to tell our personnel to bring these children down. To which I replied that there was no problem, we are taking care of them, and anyway, these are children.
Anthony said that after hearing my answer, the Israeli colonel said that if you don’t do it, I will do it myself. Anthony said that I did not take this seriously because there were no Israeli troops at the site at that time.
But then the Israeli colonel went to the operations center and said something in Hebrew to someone on the radio that I did not understand. However, there was a security contractor there who knew Hebrew. He said that the colonel was ordering his snipers to shoot the children.
Anthony said that I could not believe it when I heard this. I asked my fellow officer if he said this on the radio, to which he replied in the affirmative. Meanwhile, the colonel came back to the room and I asked him if you had told your officers on the radio to shoot at the children. To which the colonel replied If you do not control the situation, I will.
Anthony said that I told the colonel clearly that you will not shoot at all the children. Because if your officers make a mistake in aiming, others may be shot.
The former American officer said that, fortunately, the decision to shoot could not be final because the children had already come down and run away. They had no weapons, no shoes on their feet, no complete clothes, and they were hungry.
Anthony said that after the incident, the American chief operations officer called me out of the room and angrily said, “Never do this to a client.” To which I became confused and said that I did not know if there were any of our clients in the room. The officer then revealed to me that our client was the Israeli Army (IDF).
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