{"id":300740,"date":"2025-08-11T12:01:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T11:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=300740"},"modified":"2025-08-11T12:03:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T11:03:14","slug":"ap-reveals-armed-contractors-fired-on-starving-gazans-at-us-backed-aid-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/08\/ap-reveals-armed-contractors-fired-on-starving-gazans-at-us-backed-aid-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"AP Reveals Armed Contractors Fired on Starving Gazans at US-Backed Aid Sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>July 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An AP investigation exposes how untrained US security contractors used live fire, stun grenades, and pepper spray on hungry Palestinians at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation GHF-run food\/aid centers in Gaza.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">American contractors guarding US-backed Gaza aid sites were caught on video celebrating after shooting a Palestinian.<\/p>\n<p>They used live bullets, stun grenades, and pepper spray on starving civilians.<\/p>\n<p>The $30M operation, shrouded in secrecy, bars journalists and operates in\u2026 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pyaawCbQQR\" >pic.twitter.com\/pyaawCbQQR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Palestine Chronicle (@PalestineChron) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PalestineChron\/status\/1940529018391986268?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >July 2, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An AP investigation exposes how untrained US security contractors used live fire, stun grenades, and pepper spray on hungry Palestinians at GHF-run food\/aid centers in Gaza.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":300842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[3287,1559,1854,101,100,1199,2242,87,3505,865,1966,88,2416,3536,427,3534,2897,880,99,70,965],"class_list":["post-300740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-short-video-clips","tag-anti-zionism","tag-collective-punishment","tag-crimes-against-humanity","tag-cultural-violence","tag-direct-violence","tag-ethnic-cleansing","tag-famine","tag-gaza","tag-gaza-humanitarian-foundation-ghf","tag-genocide","tag-hunger","tag-israel","tag-israeli-occupation","tag-military-industrial-technological-complex","tag-palestine","tag-palestinian-holocaust","tag-sociocide","tag-state-terrorism","tag-structural-violence","tag-usa","tag-war-crimes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300741,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300740\/revisions\/300741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}