Thank you Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!, and retired Colonel Anthony Aguilar, for the interview: I watched this Monday morning 28 July when it was only an interview with Aguilar, before final editing, entitled Former Green Beret Who Worked at Gaza Food Sites Reveals Rampant War Crimes.
Credit to the Palestinian people on the ground in Gaza who have been reporting this from the start, including via their phone videos as it happens; also medical personnel, aide folks, and journalists who have also been reporting the same which they have personally witnessed.
Additional verification from an articulate retired soldier may reach people who - unfortunately - might not choose to believe what is said by anyone else who diverges from the false narrative coming from the Israeli government and its supporters in our nation.
Some of the needed answers to questions that arose in an earlier brief TikTok from Aguilar, that circulated, are answered in the interview.
This is the brief description of the episode at the Democracy Now! YouTube channel:
As more than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed seeking aid at militarized aid distribution sites run by the U.S.- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a former GHF security contractor tells Democracy Now! he saw U.S. mercenaries and Israeli forces commit war crimes by indiscriminately shooting at starving Palestinians waiting for aid. "What I witnessed in Gaza, I can only describe as a dystopian, post-apocalyptic wasteland," says Anthony Aguilar, a retired U.S. soldier who worked as a subcontractor with UG Solutions in the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid delivery operation. "We, the United States, are complicit. We are involved, hand in hand, in the atrocities and the genocide that is currently undergoing in Gaza."A subsequent short video excerpt, IDF Shoots Boy Moments after Receiving Aid from US Soldier is posted at OnePathNetwork on Instagram where Aguilar talks about a horrendous experience - a child having been shot almost immediately after he had touched Aguilar's soul, grateful for the food he had been given. It is accompanied by OnePathNetwork's following comment (if the video does not link it may be necessary to search at that profile):
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Amir did not just “die”. He was killed by the IOFThe lies and hypocrisy about what has been reported by Israel, are both different than the actual intentional harm being done (i.e. killing people, including children). Lies and hypocrisy are part of what u.s.a. soldiers swear an oath to defend our Constitution against, thus defending our rule of law nation and people empowered with democratic process by our constitution.
IOF Shoots Boy Moments after Receiving Aid from [retired] US Soldier In a heartbreaking moment shared on a recent podcast, a [retired] US soldier recounted a scene that continues to haunt him from his time stationed at the GHF aid distribution point in Gaza.
Amir, a frail child, barefoot, walked 12 kilometres under the sun to reach the distribution point. He only received a handful of rice and lentils from the ground. He approached me, kissed my hand, and said: "Thank you." Minutes later, as he was leaving with the rest of the civilians, the Israeli army fired gas and bullets, and Amir was killed on the spot.
Scenes like this are not isolated. Aid distribution centres in Gaza have become death traps, where more than 1,050 Palestinians have been killed while trying to access food, many deliberately targeted with tear gas and live ammunition by Israeli forces and American private security contractors.
Soldiers serving, and veterans, alike, are able to recognize what is and is not an illegal order, and are expected to be wary of illegal orders while serving - especially those given by "contractors" (exemplified by the Abu Gharib crimes), and by people in the military of other nations. Our people are well aware of what is illegal according to both UCMJ and u.s.a. laws,.
Good thing u.s.a. troops are not "officially" involved in the GHF front for murdering Palestinians to whom food is being distributed, unless they are there allegedly "distributing food" on personal tourist visas for the purpose of accompanying the IDF (as "tourists" - referencing the Democracy Now! interview above) while they kill Palestinians who are trying to survive picking up the food being distributed.
Dual citizen u.s.a. Reserves who are American Israelis and called up to serve by Israel in the IDF should not be following those orders either because of being Americans. Otherwise they should be prepared to stand trial (IF they return to U.S.A.) for the crimes they commit as u.s.a. citizens and/or as service members - if they are still serving in the u.s.a. reserves too.
The same should long ago have been applying, also, to dual citizen American Settlers living in oPT who are routinely killing Palestinians, destroying their crops and homes. And it should apply to all u.s.a. civilians who are there on tourist visas when they commit crimes.
The sane hard-line being taken by Canada is a good example for our nation to follow.
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