{"id":300237,"date":"2025-08-04T12:00:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T11:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=300237"},"modified":"2025-07-31T04:53:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T03:53:41","slug":"former-green-beret-who-worked-at-gaza-food-sites-reveals-rampant-war-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/08\/former-green-beret-who-worked-at-gaza-food-sites-reveals-rampant-war-crimes\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Green Beret Who Worked at Gaza Food Sites Reveals Rampant War Crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/democracy-now-logo-2.png\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-173624\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/democracy-now-logo-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"70\" height=\"70\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>29 Jul 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\">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 <\/span><em><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color yt-core-attributed-string--italicized\" dir=\"auto\">Democracy Now!<\/span><\/em><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\"> he saw U.S. mercenaries and Israeli forces commit war crimes by indiscriminately shooting at starving Palestinians waiting for aid. <em>&#8220;What I witnessed in Gaza, I can only describe as a dystopian, post-apocalyptic wasteland,&#8221;<\/em> says Anthony Aguilar, a retired U.S. soldier who worked as a subcontractor with UG Solutions in the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid delivery operation. <em>&#8220;We, the United States, are complicit. We are involved, hand in hand, in the atrocities and the genocide that is currently undergoing in Gaza.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fmr. 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