Tony Aguilar Details the Shocking War Crimes He’s Witnessing in Gaza
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Retired Lt. Col. John Aguilar talks about his 25 years of service in the U.S. Army, including serving as a Green Beret, a West Point graduate, a Purple Heart recipient, and a Bronze Star recipient. He also served as a military contractor in the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), delivering humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza.
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Before I ask you any questions, I want to read what I think is your biography or parts of it
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because I want the audience to understand who you are.
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And so I'm going to read this and you tell me if I've gotten anything wrong.
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So you're a retired lieutenant colonel in the United States Army.
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You got your commission in the Army straight out of West Point.
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You served for 25 years in the U.S. Army as a combat infantry officer and a special forces,
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You were deployed 12 times to Iraq, three times, Afghanistan, three times.
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You were deployed to Syria, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Jordan, the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand,
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You were wounded in combat, received a Purple Heart.
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You got a Bronze Star for valor in combat, an Army Commendation Medal for valor in combat.
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And then earlier this year, you found yourself working in Gaza under GHF.
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And I'll ask you to explain what that is in a moment.
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You were in Gaza from the 17th of May this year, 2025, through June 26, 2025, which was last month.
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And the reason that I wanted to establish that before you tell the story that you're going to tell us
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is because very, very few Americans have been in Gaza in the last couple of years.
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And I don't know any others who have the experience in chaotic situations and combat situations that you have who've been there.
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Anyone who's been around combat knows it's enormously confusing.
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And having 25 years of experience around violence, I think, gives you greater credibility
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because it suggests you can interpret what's happening accurately in a way that people who haven't had that experience probably can't.
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But so with that, I want to ask you the first and most obvious question.
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So the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation was established to take over the aid distribution into Gaza,
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replacing the former United Nations aid delivery mechanism post-blocking or cutting off of the Gaza enclave.
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So there was no aid going in up until May 26 when we started operations.
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And the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation was established to lead that effort overall.
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So the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, I'm not sure in terms of what their actual status is in terms of a company or an NGO or a nonprofit.
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I don't know what they're classified as, but I know that their GHF is the overall lead for both of the contract mechanisms in Gaza.
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So after 25 years as a U.S. Army officer, West Point graduate, Special Forces officer, all these combat deployments,
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all the decorations that you received, how did you wind up distributing aid in Gaza?
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Well, sir, on May 13th, I received a phone call from the UG Solutions.
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UG Solutions is a subcontract for the security portion of this aid distribution method.
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They're stationed here in Davidson, North Carolina, where I live.
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And they contacted me basically looking for experienced, recently retired or recently gotten out of the military,
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experienced combat veterans, Special Forces operations background.
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So they contacted me and explained the mission to me.
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Up until that point, until I got that phone call, I was not aware of what UG Solutions or the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation was.
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So I was interested and I listened to what they had to say.
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The reason I'm asking you this is I know that after this interview airs, there will be a concerted attempt to discredit you as a man.
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And I'm certain, having seen this happen many times, that one of the criticisms we levied against you
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is that you were some sort of political activist with a political axe to grind or an ideological axe to grind.
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And are you, because it sounds like from the story you're telling now, that you were a retired Army officer who received a call because of your combat experience.
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Prior to that phone call on the 13th of May, sir, and remind you, I did retire on the 1st of January.
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Retired through the 1st of January and my last day in the Army was 1 March.
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Between the two of us, we have 45 years of service.
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Between her and I with my son, we've missed almost every birthday, every anniversary, every Christmas from the time that he was born to the majority of our marriage.
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So I was very much comfortable and established in my retirement lifestyle.
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No political aspirations, no aspirations to go into another line of work.
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I enjoyed making breakfast for my family, taking my son to school every morning, Boy Scout meetings, PTO meetings, watching the Golden Girls in the afternoon with a cup of tea, walking the dog.
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And when I got the phone call, I felt that initially, because I didn't know much about the situation, when they first called me, I said, hey, I'd like to take a day to kind of do my own research and just kind of understand what it's all about.
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And I went through the, you know, I started to read about GHF.
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I started to read about Safe Reach Solutions, which is the prime contract.
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UG Solutions had been the contract that sent contractors into Gaza in late January through March to control the Netzerim checkpoint once the ceasefire broke, or the ceasefire started, I should say, for the Palestinians that were allowed to then go back into Gaza City.
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They had, it seemed like not many people had done contracts in Gaza.
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So I figured that this would be an opportunity to link up with a company that had the experience.
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You know, I don't know Johnny Moore, the director or CEO or whatever the title is of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
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But there is something that he said that I do agree with.
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That there's nothing more Christian than feeding people.
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And in terms of the sentiment of doing goodwill, feeding starving people, I served for the majority of my career after being an infantry officer and going to special forces.
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The special forces motto, as you see in the picture behind me of first special forces group, is de oppresso liber, to free the oppressed.
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So I don't just, I just didn't have that on my uniform.
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The civilian population in Gaza, politics aside, political views, religious positions aside, they are being oppressed.
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And I wanted to be a part of going in to help in some way.
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I have no desire to write a book or before doing these interviews, I don't even have social media and I've never really been out on the Internet.
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But my wife was a big factor behind me going on the record.
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My wife being, again, a retired military officer, we understand a lot of the same values.
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And she explained to me, she said, you know, no one else can tell this story.
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Not only were you there, you were on the sites and no one else saw it through the eyes of your experience.
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In the places you've been, in the places you've, in the things that you've done, the lens you look at this through is different than most people have.
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I want to inform the American people, my fellow citizens, of what's going on in Gaza, what our taxpayers' dollars are funding, and what American citizens on the ground are being faced with.
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So tell us what you saw, and I'm grateful to your wife for her encouragement on that.
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The United States is paying for this, and there is almost no information coming out of Gaza.
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It's been going on for more than a couple years now.
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And the sense is that there's something profound going on, but, of course, there's no way to know what's going on.
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So my initial perceptions of Gaza, just in terms of the physical aspect, is that I would just describe it as post-apocalyptic.
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Something akin to Terminator 2, when the T-100s are walking through the destroyed landscape.
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I saw pictures of Rafa prior to the current war.
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There were, you know, streetlights and neighborhoods.
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And, you know, as you go, as you drive through Rafa to one of our points, secure distribution site number three was in Rafa.
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So we would have to drive through the old southern Rafa corridor to get there and all of the homes just in piles and rubble.
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And you can see, you know, someone's couch that's hanging from a piece of rebar out of the second floor of a building or a refrigerator smashed or family photos that were on the wall that are now, you know, shattered and broken.
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Like, these lives were just destroyed and taken.
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On the news, airdrops were conducted over the last 48 hours.
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And journalists were prohibited or encouraged not to take video or pictures of the overhead scenery.
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Because if the world sees that, I think the world would step back and pause to say, what are we doing?
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That's why I think your testimony is so compelling, because you have a frame of reference.
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You've seen a lot of destruction and a lot of killing in your life for 25 years.
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How would you compare what you saw in Gaza to what you've seen in, say, Afghanistan or Iraq?
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Nothing I have seen in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Baghdad, in Mosul, Sadr City, all throughout Afghanistan, Syria, the southern Philippines, some places where there's dense populations.
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I have never witnessed anything as brutal, destructive, violent.
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And I would say that that steps far over our international laws of how we persecute wars and how we engage in warfare.
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How is it obvious that America is a part of it?
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I know that we know academically the United States is paying for this and has always paid for it.
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So the 314 government contractors under UG Solutions, the majority, not all of them, but in the high 80th, high 80 percentile, are combat veterans from the military, directly from the military combat veterans like myself.
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You have a mix of law enforcement, you have a mix of people that had experience in various security backgrounds within that military portion.
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There's a good portion of them that are special operations, Marine Corps, Navy SEALs, Green Berets.
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So all of the contractors on the ground are Americans.
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And the, you know, the interesting part of that is that when we first entered Israel, I was, I kind of had to take a pause and I was like, are we, are you kidding?
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Like, we were all, we were and are, we are in Israel, armed with fully automatic weapons and pistols and shotguns and stun grenades and machine guns, going into Gaza on a tourist visa.
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So if my grandmother wanted to go visit Jerusalem, she would be in Israel under the same status that I was.
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At first I didn't understand it, but then I went and I did some research as to why, why didn't we do a, a B1 entry visa as subject matter experts invited by the government or under a different authority.
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There's, there's various entry visa options and it dawned on me that, oh, well, if you want to submit for a, a form of B1 or a different form of the B2 under a work visa, um, one, that's expensive.
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And this mission was thrown together and there's, there's no one within SRS or UG solutions that will, that will, that will push back against this because we all know it.
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And it was just kind of, uh, a mix of throwing so many parts together, trying to get it all to come together that I think things were done to be, to be fast, fast and loose, as I would call it.
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And, uh, one of those was, hey, go online, fill out your Israeli visa, get your e-visa, tourist visa, $25 and come on over to Israel.
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So, uh, you said all of the contractors are American, um, the Israeli military, the IDF leveled Gaza.
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Are there any Israelis helping to feed or take care of, sustain the life of the Palestinians?
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Or is it all Americans who were, who were helping?
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So this is what was another aspect that was both interesting and concerning to me that.
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That, and I raised this issue early on because, you know, when I, when I use the term war crimes, people think that, oh, you're just exaggerating.
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Well, I'm well-versed in the protocols, the Geneva convention, the protocols of the alarms of our laws of armed conflict, the protocols of international humanitarian law, because I had, I had to know those things as an officer leading men in combat.
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So I, some of the things now I don't have it, you know, memorized, but there's some pretty key elements in it.
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Like the, I don't know the, every word to the constitution, but I can recite the preamble.
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So I know what some of them are in terms of like, what, like what the don'ts are.
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One thing that struck me as, as concerning is that there are only four secure distribution sites in Gaza under the Gaza humanitarian foundation for prior to the blockade.
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And prior to the stopping of U.N. aid going in, there were 400.
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So out of the four sites that we have, only four, three of them are co-located within 150 to 200 meters from each other.
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All of them in the far southwest corner of the enclave near the Egyptian border.
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North of the Netzerim corridor, which bisects central Gaza from the north.
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That is where the population right now is the most vulnerable, where you have death, starvation.
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No aid is going into there and there's no aid sites there.
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So prior to us deploying, you know, as a, as a prudent military planner mindset, you know, I'm not in the army anymore, but I didn't, you know, I still carry the skills.
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I did a little bit what I would call operational preparation in the environment.
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I did my research, looked at Gaza, figured out the population, where the population centers were, what, what people ate, where they, you know, where they primarily lived and what they did.
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And I saw that, okay, well, the entire northern enclave of Gaza is cut off and isolated and none of the sites that we've put in are in that area.
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So the three sites out of the four that are all the way down in the southern tip of the enclave, all of them are co-located or co-nearly located with an IDF combat unit.
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In that area is where the IDF is actively conducting.
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And this is, this is not an opinion that anybody can refute.
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The, yeah, the IDF is currently conducting Operation Gideon's Chariots.
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And they are conducting that in the south where all three out of the three or four sites are located.
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We established secure distribution sites to deliver and distribute humanitarian aid, not only co-located with Israeli combat units, but located in an active combat zone.
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I can't make it clearer to the leadership there and to the lawyers that I've spoke with at GHF and UG Solutions that that is a war crime, verbatim, out of the protocols of the Geneva Convention, which last time I checked, the United States was still a signatory to, and the laws of international laws and international humanitarian law.
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So, to say that, well, it's okay in this one instance, it's not.
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So, just from immediately being there, I realized that the planning and the coordination for this operation had either been done by people that had no idea, no concept of planning at that level to take into all the considerations that you have to take into an environment like this.
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You can't just go into a mission like this and say, oh, we'll just wing it.
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You have to consider the legal, the political, the environmental, the cultural, the military aspects.
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You have to consider every aspect when you go into planning something like this.
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And it was obvious that that had not been done.
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So, in my mind, I was like, this is either complete ignorance or it's intentional.
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Someday, that's going to come out when the truth breaks and the international community looks and opens this box and starts digging into this nasty problem.
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So, it's my hope that we didn't do that intentionally because that would not only make us war criminals, that would just make us evil.
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So, but the fact still remains, three of the four distribution sites are in an active combat zone.
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The fourth site up in central Gaza near the Nasserine Corridor is co-located with an Israeli combat unit, a tank unit, mind you.
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A Markaba Tank Company is located adjacent to the distribution site.
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So, if someone were to look through the annals of history and see how the United States government participated in the distribution of humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza, and they look at the maps and they're looking at everything, they're like, what was going on here?
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Why are you distributing humanitarian aid in the middle of a combat zone?
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It's a question that needs to be asked and needs to be answered, I think.
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Do you have any sense of what the current population of Gaza is, which is another way of asking, how many people have been killed?
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Well, we, I don't think anyone has a, has a firm number that we can all collectively trust.
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I know that the, the Gaza health ministry has a, has a number.
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I mean, I can't, I haven't been able to validate or verify that, but I know that one thing I can tell you for a fact is that people have been killed.
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What the current population is now, I know that prior to the blockade, kind of the, the last census for Gaza that was taken in, I believe, 2018, the population was declared to be around 2.2, 2.21 million.
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What it is now, I don't know, but I would assume that the population has been greatly decreased.
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What I do know about the population outside of the demographics of it, of the size, is that the majority, a far majority of the population is completely isolated from the central southern portion of Gaza.
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And they're completely isolated in the south, or excuse me, in the north, north of the Nasserim corridor in Gaza City.
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So that would be if you took everybody in New York and crammed them into southern Manhattan and said that's the only place you can be out of all of New York City.
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And I don't know why, well, you know, to be fair, I do know why it's happening.
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I don't know why we're a part of it, because it's, it's a war crime to do that.
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It is a war crime to intentionally displace the civilian population on the battlefield in combat operations.
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Well, moving people from where they live to a place that they don't and not letting them go back.
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It's in the fourth protocol of the Geneva Convention, and we just turn a blind eye to it.
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Yesterday, Gaza Humanitarian Foundation did a press conference where they even introduced it as,
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we are feeding the starving and displaced population of Gaza.
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Okay, thank you, Chapin Faye, you just admitted to a war crime.
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I mean, it's, these aren't rules that Tony Aguilar wrote.
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These are rules that the international community wrote and agreed to, and we're not following them.
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At the strategic level, I think it would be as one of our allies.
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But we are definitely complicit in this ongoing operation.
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And when the world looks, look at, look what's happened in the last couple of days.
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the fact that they're going to do that is a fact.
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So the world is going to become far, far more interested in what's going on.
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Because I think the world has taken the blinders off to now look,
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okay, maybe it's not as bad as the far left says,
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And when they look at it, and they open that box,
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it's the IDF, the Israeli government, with hands in the air.
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And then the world's going to say, what say you, America?
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And right now, we do not have a good answer for that.
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And if we're going to bank on, oh, well, we didn't know.
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If there's one distribution center in the middle of a combat zone,
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and the majority, you say you think the majority,
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is in the north, or central Gaza, northern Gaza.
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I do know that the Israeli, so the Israeli, within the Israeli government,
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It's at the government ministerial level that includes, it would be, I would compare it to
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what like USAID was, if USAID belonged to the Ministry of Defense or the Department
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of Defense, like militarized aid type of thing, or militarized humanitarian assistance.
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But it's an organization called Kogat, C-O-T-A-G.
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I can't recall it off the top of my head because I didn't have much interaction with them.
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But I know that Kogat does coordinate for the IDF.
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So not the UN escorted by the IDF, not the IDF escorting us, but escorts humanitarian aid
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We will provide some to the Israelis to drive into certain areas of the central corridor.
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In my time there, until recently, until like just the last couple of days when the UN trucks
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So when you see the trucks on the news that are being swarmed with thousands of people,
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that's not in the south by the three distribution sites or central Gaza.
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So those trucks aren't coming in from the Egyptian border going all the way up and they're getting
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They're going directly into the heart of darkness.
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They're going through the Erez crossing, which is the Israeli Gaza crossing to the north.
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And they're going directly in with aid to a starving population that hasn't had any food
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So what they're eating, what they have been eating, I don't know.
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And I think that when with the UN going back in there and with the international community
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going back in there, we're going to find some things that
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The people in the northern portion alone, I know, are facing mass starvation.
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Now, I'm not educated in humanitarian assistance or world food program in terms of what declares
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I know there's like a certain level of not eating for a certain amount of days within a
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So I don't know if I could technically call it a famine because I don't know what those
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So when and I'm glad I'm glad that the president of the United States came out last week or
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excuse me, yesterday on Politico and other outlets and said that he acknowledges and recognizes
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The narrative of there's no starvation and there's no hunger going on in Gaza.
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Not only is it evident to the world, I've seen it.
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So if you don't trust doctors and lawyers and aid workers and NGOs and Europeans and Westerners
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and Middle Easterners and all these people all over the world, Asians, everybody that's
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been in there that has seen this problem set, if you don't believe them, you can believe
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I witnessed Palestinian parents, mothers and fathers carrying their dead children in
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I've witnessed people that have come onto the sites that you can see that they are just
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So if if the deniers want to think that we got Stanley Kubrick to go into Gaza and take
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a bunch of crisis actors and shoot a film on to, you know, to fake this starvation, but
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it's real and people are dying at this point right now because we, the United States, the
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Gaza Humanitarian Fund put up our hand and said, we'll do it.
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The starvation at this point has gotten worse than it was before because the Gaza Humanitarian
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Foundation's process is leading to that starvation because it's not delivering enough aid, not
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even nearly enough, not even nearly to be to be a fraction of enough.
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And I've got those numbers quick to talk about if you'd like, but it's shocking when you hear
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At some point to learn a lot more about the Gaza, about this foundation, Gaza Humanitarian
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I think I think I think the world would like to know more about the foundation.
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The man who runs it, who is a prominent Christian Zionist, is I don't think he has a background
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He strikes me from reading about him as a political figure.
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So I'm a little bit confused by this, but it sounds like we all have reason to be alarmed
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So if you could proceed with those numbers, you should be alarmed by it.
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I'd be safer grading a driving test by Ray Charles than listening to Johnny Moore talk
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I have not sat down and had coffee with the man.
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Um, I saw him when he came to the main control center in Gaza to, to visit and then go out
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So they brought him in under, you know, heavily armed security.
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It's like kind of the, one of the things when the, when the in-laws visit, you put out the
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So, you know, when Johnny Moore visits, you know, you, you, you roll out the red carpet.
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So of course, when he gets there, everything's great.
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Um, but the other, what's funny is that it wasn't spick and span because while he was
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there and another of the, um, uh, supporters that they brought in a Lieutenant Colonel, um,
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I've never met him, but I've seen some of his interviews on site as he's standing there
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talking, you can hear machine gun fire in the background.
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I mean, it, it, it's akin to Baghdad Bob in 2003 proclaiming on CNN that there are no
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Americans in Baghdad as an M1 Abrams tank rolls right behind him.
00:31:44.240
There are no, there are no Americans in Baghdad.
00:31:46.720
And then Abrams tank come from the third ID comes right behind him.
00:31:49.820
And he looks back and he's like, okay, there are some Americans in Baghdad.
00:31:53.760
Like that's like, like, that's like what this is right now.
00:32:05.540
It's like, when is America going to wake up to the, to the garbage?
00:32:11.840
So this is like, yeah, the, I I'd love to know more about the Gaza humanitarian foundation.
00:32:19.740
And the thing is, is that not revealing your sources, not revealing who you are, not revealing
00:32:24.760
where your income comes from, not revealing who your backers are, not revealing what you
00:32:28.440
do, not providing any reports, not providing reporter, not allowing reporters to go in, not providing,
00:32:44.100
Are those, are those the people that we want to say that we're like?
00:32:50.440
Our country was founded on calling out other people's bull crap, calling out other people's,
00:33:05.540
And yet we're just sitting by and letting this happen and going back, you know, so I
00:33:11.740
Let me just ask, do you know who is funding the Gaza humanitarian foundation?
00:33:22.800
I don't, who, who is funding it from its base and like who has funded it from the beginning
00:33:27.700
and who put the, you know, the, the seed money into getting it off the ground?
00:33:33.380
But I do know that many, many, many, many people in the United States government and within the,
00:33:37.800
you know, media outlets have been working for quite a long time to try to figure that
00:33:42.060
So one indicator for me, you know, it's like when you're looking at a problem, I call it
00:33:47.540
When you can't figure out what you're trying to find, but you can see the things that are
00:33:52.340
It starts to tell you a picture of what the thing is that you can't see.
00:33:56.000
It's like, yes, the science of a black, of a black hole, right?
00:33:58.720
Like you can't see it, but you can see everything that's happening around it to tell you, to tell
00:34:05.180
So I would say in this, okay, we have the Gaza humanitarian fund living, led by a, a Christian
00:34:13.900
Zionist who has no experience in humanitarian assistance and humanitarian aid.
00:34:18.860
The Switzerland, Switzerland would not take GHF's accounts.
00:34:24.540
Switzerland, Switzerland would even open an account for Jeffrey Epstein.
00:34:32.420
Like, that's like, whoa, that, that don't pass the sniff test.
00:34:36.980
Furthermore, the number one guy in charge of GHF, Gaza humanitarian foundation, Jake Wood,
00:34:43.340
who was a former employee in the beginning of, um, the early, uh, paramilitary contractor
00:34:49.460
I don't know if he was necessarily attached directly to Blackwater, but I know he was in
00:34:54.300
Jake Wood, the very first day we began distribution on 26th May, cutting of the ribbon, the golden
00:35:07.380
The guy in charge of the entire Gaza humanitarian foundation on the day we started distribution
00:35:13.740
And he quit and he stepped down citing reasons of unethical practices, not being prepared
00:35:26.240
So, and then a couple of weeks later, uh, Boston consulting group, they stepped down because
00:35:31.100
they found out that there was things going on that were, that weren't initially conveyed
00:35:37.600
So when everyone starts jumping ship, you kind of start to look around, like, where's
00:35:42.380
Like right now, I feel like the United States that we're just, we're just rearranging the
00:35:51.220
And instead of like trying to figure out how to get to a lifeboat or trying to figure out
00:35:54.440
how to call for help, we're just, we're just rearranging the deck chairs, listening
00:35:57.540
to the band as the, as the ship goes down because we, we believe what people like Johnny
00:36:02.640
Morse, um, and it's easily, I wouldn't say it's discredit, discreditable.
00:36:09.320
I'm just here to present facts, facts that GHF themselves have proclaimed.
00:36:15.600
So yesterday and when, when Chapin Fay finished the Gaza humanitarian foundation press conference
00:36:25.240
When he finished, he said, we're going to get back to work delivering 20, 26, 96 million
00:36:37.640
That's, and here's why we've been delivering aid from heat.
00:36:43.460
When he announced that yesterday, we've been delivering aid for 65 days, 65 days.
00:36:51.140
Now you don't have to be Copernicus to figure this out.
00:36:54.100
96 million divided by 2.21 million divided by three meals a day, divided by 65 days.
00:37:03.880
We have provided food for 15 days out of 65 into the enclave.
00:37:13.520
So to say that people aren't starving and people aren't hungry, I beg to differ.
00:37:21.200
I mean, I assume you prefer to eat a meal at least once a day, maybe two or three, you
00:37:26.020
know, like the standard breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
00:37:29.580
You know, if you're only eating one meal a day, okay.
00:37:31.320
What if I told you that I'm only eating, I'm only eating one meal on Thursday and one
00:37:45.160
You know, it's, if, uh, if my son went to school and the teacher started to notice that
00:37:49.220
he was losing weight and he was emaciated and they came to my house and they said, Mr.
00:37:55.320
Feed him every third day, bowl of cereal every three days.
00:37:59.560
They're going to be like, uh, you should not be a parent and we're taking your child away
00:38:04.660
So the God's Humanitarian Foundation should not be doing humanitarian aid and the United States
00:38:09.940
government should say no and take away the child, which is Palestine, Gaza, and take
00:38:16.180
all that money and support the United Nations process.
00:38:19.740
We've been a part of the United Nations for 80 years this year, 80 years, 1945, since the
00:38:25.680
United States is one of the signatories to the creation of the United Nations.
00:38:31.620
Because of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation that is killing people.
00:38:36.600
Those numbers that I just gave you, that's using their numbers.
00:38:39.940
So if GHF is going to start politicizing math, then I think we're in a bad place.
00:38:46.160
How were you treated and how were the other American contractors treated by the IDF and
00:38:53.280
That would be a mixed bag depending on what level you were at.
00:38:56.180
I clearly remember on the 24th of May, a select few of us, a select few of the leaders were
00:39:07.280
taken to the sites, to the secure distribution sites to kind of get eyes on and kind of get
00:39:11.580
a feel for what the sites looked like, kind of get an assessment.
00:39:19.360
Site One is really close to the Mediterranean, right in the corner of Egypt and Gaza and the Med.
00:39:24.560
And I went up to the Western Tower and I'm just kind of looking out, assessing the area.
00:39:31.760
And sitting next to the tower, kind of at the base of it, outside of the berm, was a group of
00:39:38.940
And they looked up to me and they say, oh, are you an American?
00:39:47.520
And they asked me, why are you feeding our enemy?
00:39:54.160
And I was like, oh, I don't have an answer for you.
00:40:02.720
So the guys on the ground, the grunts on the ground, the fighters, the IDF guys on the
00:40:06.900
ground, their perception is that the humanitarian aid going into Gaza is feeding the enemy.
00:40:17.620
I mean, I understand they don't want you helping Hamas, the leadership of Hamas.
00:40:26.440
Women and children and elderly people and women, children, the disabled, the elderly,
00:40:52.360
Those are the people who didn't choose the war, who weren't fighting in the war, who were
00:40:57.280
And that comment from this IDF infantry soldier on the ground, that's a perception.
00:41:07.160
And I think we've also heard the perception from the highest levels of the Israeli government
00:41:18.100
And the reason that's striking to me, because I feel like someone handed Bibi Netanyahu a
00:41:25.200
list of the violations of the Degeva Convention, but took the numbers off of it, and he's
00:41:30.900
just checking them off, like displacing the population.
00:41:37.280
Firing at the civilians to control the population.
00:41:40.180
Okay, well, targeting civilians with lethal ammunition to control the population verbatim is
00:41:48.220
We're going to build the humanitarian distribution sites in the middle of combat zones?
00:41:56.720
Oh, how about we label the entire society as Hamas and kill them all?
00:42:04.700
You just got us straight across because now you just made another war crime statement because
00:42:08.180
the Geneva Convention specifically inhibits the classification of an entire population as
00:42:27.560
So when I bring up these points about war crimes, it's not this this politicized bombastic,
00:42:42.040
We're displacing the population to move them to do combat operations.
00:42:49.360
Well, you're a professional army officer of 25 years, West Point graduate.
00:42:59.860
You're not, you know, some hippie saying it's a war crime.
00:43:03.000
It's like literally a war crime because there is an actual definition.
00:43:11.580
And when people call certain things war crimes that look horrific, I'm like, well, that's
00:43:17.720
But I understand that that is horrific, but that's not.
00:43:19.880
But there are things that, by definition, violate the protocols of the Geneva Convention,
00:43:36.420
It's not something you can do sometimes unless you want to get a ticket.
00:43:39.040
So it's one of those things to where it's like there's a book that tells us these things,
00:43:43.500
that the answers to the tests are in this book.
00:43:46.140
Well, they also violate the conscience of any person watching.
00:43:52.980
So, OK, so I've asked you, I've asked around the story.
00:43:59.980
And again, thank you for your time in doing this.
00:44:03.040
So now to the question, how did the Israeli military, the IDF, treat Palestinian civilians?
00:44:09.240
I could describe it as nothing more than they treated them like animals.
00:44:17.560
Even the UG solutions and the SRS personnel on the ground, what was concerning to me,
00:44:24.200
because I witnessed this in years of Iraq, when you get down the road and you start describing
00:44:27.360
people in a certain way, you start to dehumanize them.
00:44:30.180
Even the U.S. contractors on the ground called them the zombie horde.
00:44:37.240
The IDF, and in some cases we, don't recognize these people as human beings.
00:44:43.540
And part of my, you know, why I want to talk and come out in this is because I saw these
00:44:51.980
I, I, you know, I, you know, this photo here, this is on site one, that's a human being.
00:44:59.920
This didn't come from some far left journalist or from the Gaza health ministry.
00:45:12.460
These are, these are the people that we're dehumanizing, that we're killing in mass scale,
00:45:16.720
that we're depriving of food and water, that we are torturing in a way, because they're
00:45:25.920
And we're calling them, we're calling them all Hamas.
00:45:37.280
And to be fair, I distributed at every site through distribution windows, morning, afternoon,
00:45:46.940
Most of the contractors there do one site because they're assigned to that site because
00:45:51.160
the nature of my job, I went to all the sites, not once, not once ever.
00:45:56.340
And I'm pretty keen at looking out for things and staying alive.
00:45:59.640
Not once ever did I witness a threat, a hostile act, a weapon, anyone from quote unquote Hamas.
00:46:08.520
They don't show up with a t-shirt that says Hamas.
00:46:11.060
So, you know, there's, is Hamas amongst the population?
00:46:14.940
Well, of course they are, but it doesn't mean that, that the entire population is Hamas.
00:46:20.780
So that's the type of discipline and understanding and maturity and, and wherewithal of an under,
00:46:27.880
of an operation like this, that's required to do something like this.
00:46:34.620
We treat them like animals with, with no dignity.
00:46:37.960
You say that you saw, and again, I just want to state for the fifth time, I've met few people
00:46:45.820
with more experience in situations like this, chaos, foreign country, shooting, soldiers,
00:46:56.280
So, you know, I think you have a lot of experience interpreting what you saw.
00:47:09.300
You know, it doesn't, you know, I'm sure there's a threat there, but you didn't experience it.
00:47:18.700
The way, uh, so to walk everyone through kind of how a, a distribution site works in terms
00:47:26.160
So early in the morning, the Palestinians, because mind you, the, the Palestinians to
00:47:33.140
They have to walk one way from where they live because they have to go through the established
00:47:38.020
military corridors, just one way to get to where they have to get to.
00:47:45.280
So they can't just walk straight down to the site.
00:47:47.520
They have to go West to the coastal corridor, down the coastal corridor, into the Morag corridor,
00:47:53.140
So they're walking anywhere from eight to 12 kilometers, one way, one way to get to
00:48:00.420
So when they queue up in the morning at the intersection of the Morag corridor and the
00:48:04.620
coastal road, and the queuing gets into the, to the magnitude of thousands, the IDF hold
00:48:13.480
When this, when the UG solutions personnel call on the radio to the IDF to say the site is
00:48:19.180
ready, the crowd is released in a massive, massive tidal wave of, tidal wave of people.
00:48:25.820
It's dehumanizing and rushing towards the site because they're starving.
00:48:32.040
As they're coming to the site, the IDF shoot at them.
00:48:42.120
Within a matter of minutes, two minutes, 15 seconds, hundreds of Palestinians are already
00:49:12.480
Like, this is not like, it's so compelling when you see it.
00:49:17.680
And as I'm watching it and feel and being there and you hear early morning hours, you
00:49:21.940
know, pre-dawn sunrise over the Mediterranean, thousands of, of Palestinians rushing down to
00:49:28.680
the site and over their heads, you just see tracer bullets flying, tracers, tank rounds,
00:49:37.680
And they do that to keep the Palestinians on the right path.
00:49:42.660
My suggestion from the very beginning was like, have we tried a sign?
00:49:48.460
Like, I don't know, like, put a, put a sign in the road that says go this way instead of
00:49:53.800
Like, I think that would be like, that would be a great way to, to kind of, to kind of start.
00:50:06.520
So as they're coming to the site and they're getting shot at, it's dark.
00:50:10.220
The Israeli forces in the South are reserve conscripts.
00:50:14.940
They're not the IDF that, that, that the, that are in the elite active army unit.
00:50:25.720
Rarely do they get to shoot their weapons and they don't have night vision capability.
00:50:30.160
So they're shooting into the dark at thousands of people to say that when, when, when the,
00:50:37.320
when the sun rises and bodies are strewn along the road and the IDF say, oh, we didn't do
00:50:56.080
There's, there's this entire area is a militarized controlled zone.
00:51:01.040
I was like, if Hamas got into here, y'all really aren't doing your job.
00:51:03.380
Like there's no Hamas, no one with weapons, dead people screwing along the streets.
00:51:09.140
So when you see on the news at Nasser hospital, when patients get brought in and people then
00:51:23.520
When they get onto the site in this mass crowd, just imagine if you will, if, if it was
00:51:29.740
black Friday at Walmart and they cleared out the Walmart, they moved everything out.
00:51:33.860
And in the middle of the Walmart, they just put a box of TVs and they were free.
00:51:39.560
And at nine o'clock, the door crashes open and everybody's squeezing into the small door
00:51:44.960
And you've got, you've got two security guards there on every site.
00:51:49.640
There are 22 armed security guards pulling security.
00:51:53.920
So that's one to 409 ratio, one guard to 409 people ratio.
00:52:02.260
There's, there's no way that the, the armed security can manage or control that.
00:52:10.220
So when they get onto the site, I call, I called it the eight minutes of mayhem within eight
00:52:15.600
minutes, 25,000 boxes of food are stripped through, taken down and gone eight minutes.
00:52:24.000
It's one of the most chaotic, deprived, dehumanizing things I've ever seen in my life.
00:52:30.380
And I was, I was in Bagus Fagani when ISIS surrendered, talk about dehumanization.
00:52:38.460
At the end, when there's a few people left to pick up the remnants of AIDS, some beans,
00:52:45.860
some rice, the UG solutions personnel then start clearing the crowd with the procedures
00:52:50.780
that they've adopted from the IDF where we, we throw stun grenades, we spray pepper spray.
00:52:56.480
I saw on a recent video last week of a UG solutions person that I know, I know who that
00:53:06.580
And he's standing on a berm and they have these new devices where it's about the size of a
00:53:10.620
fire extinguisher with a, with a fog hose on it to just spray tear gas.
00:53:17.100
And so now that's the, that's the standard operating procedure.
00:53:19.400
And as they get to the gate and the gates are closed, the IDF salute, the IDF guards
00:53:24.480
then, then shoot at them at their feet over their heads in the air, just like the IDF do.
00:53:30.040
And, you know, again, like yesterday when, when GHF gave their press conference, they even
00:53:34.640
said that, like Mr. Aguilar has said that shots have been fired at civilians.
00:53:38.100
We only shoot at their feet over their head in the air.
00:53:44.180
But when you're shooting bullets that come out of an automatic rifle at a crowd of thousands
00:53:50.140
of people, and you can't see them because there's berms and there's dust and there's,
00:53:54.060
and there's inner visibility lines that you can't see.
00:54:01.960
So the, you know, our guys don't shoot at them.
00:54:07.340
OK, well, shooting at them, targeting innocent, unarmed civilians on the battlefield for the
00:54:14.500
purpose of controlling them or controlling the crowd.
00:54:19.440
So when, when we're doing these things, it's, we're just egregiously violating international
00:54:26.520
The standards that we, that we as Americans expect.
00:54:29.940
People were hung at Nuremberg for things like this.
00:54:38.160
As a, as a case in point, in the United States Army, if I were fighting in, in Germany
00:54:44.980
and a squad of German soldiers that was just shooting at me, puts down their guns and raises
00:54:57.420
I have to give them safe passage to, to captivity or to holding.
00:55:04.560
There are rules in conflict and we must abide by those.
00:55:07.960
Now, what I find to be incredibly, incredibly concerning for the American people and for my
00:55:14.000
fellow teammates, my guys on the ground, American citizens, is that GHS position is,
00:55:20.280
well, we're not, this isn't a war and we're not, we don't have to abide by those rules.
00:55:25.900
Those rules apply to everybody no matter what, but even more so that you should not have
00:55:32.560
We are there as tourists, as I said in the beginning of the show, tourists, we should
00:55:37.080
not be pulling the trigger of that gun unless it is absolutely to protect an imminent threat
00:55:42.340
In a case in point, from all of the days and all of the times and all of the sites, I
00:55:48.840
I didn't pull the pistol on my rifle one time, never even took it out of its holster.
00:55:54.300
Stun grenades, tear gas, didn't use it once because I didn't need, I'm not, not because
00:55:58.800
I'm some like, you know, soft, you know, anti-gun, you know, I didn't need it.
00:56:04.400
Never one time did I ever need to pull my rifle, shoot my gun or use means to stun or
00:56:11.840
And I was at more distributions at more sites, more time than, than any single person in the
00:56:23.940
And I think I know something about, you know, when it's time to shoot, you know, done a lot.
00:56:29.940
So never felt that I had to do that ever once it's, it's immature.
00:56:40.200
That is not how America engages on the world stage.
00:56:46.080
We are the ones that choose the harder right over the easier wrong.
00:56:50.360
We don't do it because the IDF say it's okay to do it.
00:56:57.760
And that bed is about to get flipped over by the international community.
00:57:01.760
And if we don't, if we don't stand up and say something now, like today, tomorrow, if
00:57:06.980
we don't stand up and do something about it, we're going down that road and it's not a
00:57:13.200
I hope you can tell your story on Fox News and on every American media outlet as soon
00:57:21.220
I'm not betting on it, but I hope, I hope they will.
00:57:23.620
So let me ask you about the story that you have told that's a really difficult story,
00:57:29.120
awful story, but about the boy who you were in contact with who was killed, shot to death.
00:57:41.660
So, you know, this little boy is similar in age to my son, brown eyes.
00:57:53.620
My son's face when I look at him and this little boy, you know, he's not, he's not ISIS.
00:58:07.100
This was on secure distribution site number two, the 28th of May, our second day of doing
00:58:22.800
I didn't see it from afar and then, and then assume I saw it.
00:58:38.340
I know that because when he walked over from the crowd of people, he walked toward me.
00:58:43.720
There was two, there was two of us standing there, two UG solutions guards standing in
00:58:48.540
And we thought maybe he was hurt or maybe he was asking for some more food because all
00:58:52.640
he had in his arms was a small bag of rice, half a bag of flour, some lentils that he had
00:59:00.280
And we thought maybe he was asking for more food or maybe he was hurt.
00:59:03.880
And we notioned him over and he came up and he extends his right hand at us.
00:59:10.880
And so I, you know, I kind of walked up to him and waved him over.
00:59:14.120
And the guy standing next to me, this young boy grabs, holds his hand and he kisses it.
00:59:19.380
And then he comes to me and he holds my hand and he kisses it.
00:59:23.340
In Arab culture, that is a very significant sign of respect.
00:59:26.520
That's not something that should be taken lightly or something that should be, that's
00:59:35.680
The gentleman that was standing next to me was also a military veteran, combat veteran.
00:59:39.000
So he's been to Afghanistan, Iraq, and he understood, he was moved by it.
00:59:44.140
And as he was standing there, we were both looking at him and he was very emaciated.
00:59:51.580
He had a kind of a rope or string holding his pants up.
00:59:56.520
Probably hasn't bathed in months, probably hasn't eaten in days.
01:00:00.120
And oh, by the way, when they walk eight to 12 kilometers to get to these sites, the Gaza
01:00:04.240
Humanitarian Foundation mechanism provides no water, zero, not a single bottle because
01:00:12.720
Distributing water weighs so much that it breaks down the profit per cost per truck.
01:00:18.700
That's a fact because I asked why and I was given a lesson in it.
01:00:25.880
All of their food, by the way, requires water to cook it.
01:00:31.040
So what we're giving them, I don't know how they're eating it.
01:00:33.020
But he comes, he's standing there and I, and I put my arm on his, on his right, on his left
01:00:39.020
And I look at him and I can feel the bones in his shoulder.
01:00:49.880
And I look at him and I looked and I got down on my knees where I'm looking at him in the
01:01:10.180
And he doesn't speak English and I don't speak Arabic, but the connection we had in looking
01:01:15.480
at each other, he felt like he felt, he felt for the first time in a long time that there
01:01:25.120
And I got down on a knee and he came in to his level and the items he had in his hand,
01:01:30.300
he sets them down on the ground and he, his hands, he raises his hands and they're small,
01:01:35.900
You can, you can see bones sticking, you know, just the bones to the skin.
01:01:39.040
And he places his hands on my face and he kissed me.
01:01:42.560
And he said, he looked at me in the eyes and he says, thank you.
01:02:00.540
These children that are starving and dying, these, these children, you know, they look like
01:02:09.660
This child is picking up noodles off the ground with his bare hands because there was no food
01:02:15.020
So he's picking up noodles to put into his backpack.
01:02:22.160
Amir goes back toward, back to the main group and he goes out the exit.
01:02:26.720
We had a very strict protocol that they come in a certain way, get the aid, and then they
01:02:32.680
From the way they came in, it takes them back to the way they came in.
01:02:37.980
So they enter from the Morag Corridor, they go south, they go through the station, they
01:02:45.800
So coming in and going out, they're tied right back into the active combat zone.
01:02:50.580
Site number two particularly is a little bit different than the other sites because it's
01:02:56.940
And there's an IDF combat outpost just off the corner of SDS-2.
01:03:01.700
So there's a berm that lines that road going out.
01:03:06.160
So if people are leaving the exit and someone is on the east side of the berm shooting into
01:03:12.440
the crowd over here, you can't see what's on the other side of that berm because of the
01:03:20.280
So the IDF are shooting at the crowd that's leaving.
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As the crowd left and they would hit the Morag Corridor to go west, the IDF would shoot
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at them, shoot at their feet, shoot over their head.
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We would shoot at them, shoot at their feet, shoot over their head, shoot into the air.
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It was the second time we had done distribution.
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So when I heard the gunfire kickoff, the automatic machine gun fire, I thought we were under
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So I ran up to the southern berm and I laid down to take cover.
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You know, I'm observing and I'm looking and I see the shooting keep going on by just the
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And Palestinians dropping on the side of the road.
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He walked 12 kilometers to get some food, picked up scraps off the ground.
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That's all that was left because the eight minute mayhem took all of the food.
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And by the time he got there walking with no shoes, hungry and tired, the only thing left
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for him was to pick up some remnants off the ground.
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Now, do I think that they intentionally shot him or shot the people they were shooting at?
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But when you use machine guns and tank rounds and mortar rounds to control a crowd, what
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And the United States stands by and watches it in the press conference that GHF gave last night.
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We only shoot at the crowd in the air around them or at their feet.
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That is not how professionals behave when dealing with a civilian population.
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Because what I thought would be another great, great tool would have been a loudspeaker with
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Because no one there speaks Arabic and they don't speak English.
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So when you're dealing with a crowd of 8,000 to 9,000 people and you're trying to communicate
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with them, and I was like, how about before we start shooting, how about we do two things?
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One, we provide a loudspeaker with a translator.
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We put signs out there that say, go this way, go that way, turn left.
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So the only way I can describe the sites is death traps.
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And the United States puts aid and we lure them in.
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And when they leave, they get shot at coming and they get shot at going.
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So the reports you hear from Nasser Hospital, which is about five kilometers from site number
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two, Nasser Hospital, that you hear all the reports of dead civilians coming in to get
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Doctors have testified that every time GHF does a distribution at site one, two, or three,
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which the road from those goes directly to the Nasser Hospital, they get a massive influx
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of patients to what they call mass casualties, an MCI, mass casualty incident, every time.
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Have you ever heard of any other country do it?
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I've never heard of anything like this, but I haven't spent 25 years deployed in war zones.
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Now, in other countries that I've been in with partner forces, are there sometimes an errant
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or undisciplined bad apple in the group that you discipline and you correct that behavior?
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At this scale, to where it's widely accepted, but then to also the fact that the UG Solutions
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contractors also do it under the guise of, well, the IDF do it, so we're fine with doing
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Never, never have I seen an American behave this way.
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And I've seen some pretty ragtag armies in my day.
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Um, and never have I seen this level of depravity and just disrespect for human dignity.
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And it's, I mean, the word I keep using, because it's the only way I can describe it
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is because America is giving tax dollars to it.
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Now, there has, you came out and told this story, I think two days ago, uh, or a couple
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of days ago for the first time in public that I'm aware of.
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Um, and, uh, there was immediate pushback as there always is.
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Um, and your integrity was called into question.
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This boy is not dead is, is what they, is what they said.
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I, I directly communicated to the, the lawyer in the GHF press conference that I demanded
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And this is why the picture that they used that GHF used and has circulated the picture
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they have of a small boy with a contractor with his hands on their, on his head, juxtaposed
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to the picture of, of me that I took with this boy standing next to me.
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What's ironic is that the picture they have of the man, of the contractor standing there
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It's like, they're giving them my, it's like, they're giving me back my own material as proof
01:08:58.320
So the, the picture that I have, this, this picture with me, myself and Amir and everybody
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on site, that is distribution site number two on the 29th of May.
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That picture has been geolocated, metadata checked.
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The picture that they provided to say, well, look, here's a picture of this contractor,
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That picture that I took, the guy with his hand on the kid's head is from site number four
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There is no way physically possible that the child could have gotten from site two, sites
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one, two, and three are all the way in the south, south of the Morag corridor.
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Site number four is all the way in the central at the, at the Nesarin corridor.
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So unless he, unless he flew there or beamed him up and he transported there, that wouldn't
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But number two, you put the pictures right next to each other, not, not kind of like here
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I ran it through an AI generator and it said, that's not the same person because it's not
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You worked for them and you still know nothing about them.
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I'm sure they're taking U.S. tax dollars run by this.
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They're taking U.S. tax dollars run by this Christian Zionist kind of preacher.
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He's got all kinds of business ventures that don't, you know, I'm not going to pass judgment,
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Johnny Moore, this Christian leader, why would a Christian leader try to hide the fact that
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So here's, here's my take on it is that, um, and the other thing is that there's, there's
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humanitarian organizations in, in Gaza that are currently from that photo looking for the
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And that will come out soon when they confirm that, that he is dead.
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Um, that has also been put out to the, to the Nasser hospital to confirm, you know, that that
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boy was, was brought in on the, the, when he was, if he was brought in.
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And I know it's the truth because from the picture they provided on site four and the
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picture they provided on site two, I took those pictures.
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So the, for the concept to say that, oh, look, here's a mirror a couple of days later at the
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First of all, they said, here's a mirror a couple of days later at the same site.
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Well, that's not true because the picture that they have from a couple of days later is
01:12:00.540
So when they say that I have an agenda, political, whatever it may be, there's absolutely no
01:12:12.660
I mean, they shut down my, my, my space account last month because they took it down from,
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So I have nothing like, I have no skin in the game of this, but to tell the truth, what they
01:12:23.900
have in the game is a lot of money to the tune of tens of millions, hundreds of millions
01:12:29.420
So do they care about a Palestinian life or the, the, the people know about that life
01:12:45.740
A 25 year veteran who went to West Point where our motto is duty, honor country.
01:12:49.660
A cadet will not lie cheap or steal or tolerate those that do.
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And I lived that motto and graduated from West Point and lived that motto in my army career.
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And I have nothing to gain from any of this whatsoever at all.
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That I was there and I took the pictures and I witnessed it with my own eyes.
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I'm a 43 year old man, 25 in the years in the army is a green beret.
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The evangelical Zionist who has billions of dollars to gain by this, by everything being
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just fine or the 25 year veteran green beret who went to West Point, who's been, who was
01:13:30.180
under a purple heart for this country, who's bled on the battlefield for this country, who's
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The guy that sits in Washington DC, that's been to Gaza once or, or his lawyer, who's never
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Or are you going to believe the guy that was there that took the pictures that touched the
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Well, I think most people watching will, will make up their minds on that pretty quickly.
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We are going to attempt to, to interview Johnny Moore.
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So my last question is, and I just want to thank you a third time for taking the time for
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I'm simply the vessel to translate the story of the, of the people in Palestine, human
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Let's just call them human beings, human beings that are being treated with, with inhumanity.
01:14:35.080
What should the Trump administration, what should the United States government do in response?
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I hope that every, every decision maker, and I'm going to do everything I can to make sure
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this happens, sees your testimony, sees this video, listens to what you just said, and you
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Well, I'd also like the, the analysis that I had sent to your, your producers on the, you know,
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I created a product for them last night with the comparison of the boy they said was him and him
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and put them together with the, you know, the map data and everything.
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So sharing that would also be helpful because I think it's shameful, shameful to make a,
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to make a political position out of something like that.
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But it's also in a way kind of telling to where, you know, according to Johnny Moore,
01:15:26.340
So not, not, not what our religion says that God knows every hair on your head and that each
01:15:34.300
I mean, that's a foundational Christian understanding of, of humanity.
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For a self-described Christian preacher to say something like that is shocking to me.
01:15:50.080
Because that's, that's the, you know, the second part of my effort here is to, to take action.
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And there's been thorough analysis done on this.
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I've done the analysis and I've got no, I, I've already, I've already, I've, I've, I've
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I was like, here, here's the analysis I've done, you know, here you go.
01:16:08.780
Um, so the, uh, the, the Gaza humanitarian foundation should cease to exist.
01:16:17.260
And here's why the existence of the Gaza humanitarian foundation and its creation and existence creates
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a misnomer, a misnomer, a lie that this mechanism is working and that the UN is not needed.
01:16:39.320
Regardless of what we call the method, whether it's GHF, whether it's the UN, whether it's
01:16:46.820
Greta Thunberg handing out PBJ sandwiches on the Mediterranean beach, whatever the method
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is, it has to be able to feed 2.21 million people a day, three meals a day, every day
01:17:05.720
Remember the GHF aid brings no water, no pampers, no diapers, no fuel, no medicine, no hygiene products,
01:17:11.480
just dried food, nothing else, nothing else. So the method, whatever it is, needs to be a method
01:17:19.060
that can handle the capacity of 500 to 550 trucks a day, every day that can manage 400 to 500 sites
01:17:27.800
throughout the entirety of Gaza. I mean, imagine if in the state of Florida, they said, Hey, you want
01:17:32.500
food? You got to come down to Key West, everybody. Like it's absurd. So, you know, the, the method that
01:17:40.560
needs to be in place has to be able to service four to 500 sites in Gaza needs to be able to service
01:17:45.420
500 to 550 trucks a day. That's the math. That's the math that's been done. And they need to be do
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it every day. And they need to have experts in humanitarian assistance, doctors to understand
01:17:57.360
medical assessments, veterinarians to look at the, you know, the, the animals to make sure that we're
01:18:02.980
not spreading rabies, you know, all these things you don't think about that because I've done it so
01:18:07.060
much. When you go to places like that, you're like, Oh yeah. Like if we, if we don't assess the
01:18:10.280
animal population, everybody could die of rabies. We don't want that. All these things that go into
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that. Well, the UN provides that. That was the UN model. The UN model was taking in 550 to 600
01:18:20.160
trucks a day, going to 400 sites with doctors, veterans, nurses, teachers, water, fuel, enough
01:18:29.140
food. That was the mechanism. So when it first came out that, Oh, well, the UN method just gives it all
01:18:35.000
to Hamas. Well, Israel themselves, the intelligence apparatus within Israel, the American USAID,
01:18:41.980
the American state department, other nations in the last day or two have all come out to say,
01:18:48.280
there is no evidence that the humanitarian aid was going into the hands of Hamas at any rate that
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that's considerable to make an impact to the feeding. Now, was some of it going into the hands
01:18:59.500
of Hamas? Well, sure. Because Hamas is amongst the population. I mean, again, how do you, who's
01:19:04.200
Hamas? I mean, I know who they are politically, but like, how do you tell? Like, Hey, are you Hamas?
01:19:09.460
Well, they don't have their Hamas t-shirt on that day. I guess you won't know. So the mechanism in
01:19:14.460
place now with what's being delivered, well, there's a cut going to Hamas. So we're delivering
01:19:20.400
this much aid right now. And there's a cut going to Hamas where under the UN mechanism,
01:19:25.280
we can deliver this much aid with that much potentially going to Hamas. It's no comparison.
01:19:31.880
It's no question. The United States should cease funding the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation now today.
01:19:37.980
Demand accountability on where that money went. Because I can tell you, seeing there and being
01:19:41.720
there and the resources that we spent, I don't know where that 30 million went. It didn't go to Gaza.
01:19:46.720
Somebody better check some bank accounts. Yes, immediately. But it wasn't the
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Gaza Humanitarian Foundation that shot a mirror. So the question is, why would U.S.
01:19:59.920
You described the IDF as totally without decency, undisciplined
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people who committed war crimes on a daily basis. Why would the U.S. government be funding that?
01:20:11.280
So here's one thing that I will say that I want to make clear on the record.
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I have worked with the IDF on numerous occasions in my military career, not just in this mission.
01:20:28.100
I also, I stand with Israel in condemning the violence of Hamas.
01:20:34.460
When I got into Israel on May 19th, the very next day on the 20th, I had some time in the evening.
01:20:41.460
I got a rental car and I went from Beersheba. That's where I was staying before we started
01:20:45.940
operations. And I drove to Kibbutz Bieri. Kibbutz Bieri is the kibbutz outside of Gate 96 that Hamas
01:20:52.240
hit first when they came through Gate 96. That's the gate they broke. That's the gate they came through.
01:20:57.300
And they slaughtered and murdered 300 plus 300 people in the kibbutz.
01:21:01.160
Then they went to the Nova Film Festival. I went to those sites. I went there on purpose
01:21:06.980
because I wanted to feel the gravity of Israel's position. I wanted to understand with my own eyes,
01:21:14.700
not what I heard on the news, what I saw, but to feel it. And did I feel anger? Yes. Did I feel
01:21:20.540
disgust? Yes. Did I feel sorrow, sadness, and pain and vengeance? Yes. But there are rules.
01:21:28.840
If we lose our humanity in saying that, well, we're just going to do what Hamas did because
01:21:33.960
they did it so we could do it to them, we've lost. Hamas has already won. We've lost our way.
01:21:39.880
So what I plead to the people of Israel and to the Israeli army, let's not lose our way.
01:21:44.000
America and Israel, let's not lose our way. Let's stay the course of what's tried and true and what
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we've known throughout life. And that's dignity and respect for humans. We all demand that.
01:21:56.040
So the relationship with the IDFs, I don't characterize all of the IDF that way.
01:22:02.780
The forces that are deployed in the South, the IDF reserve conscripts,
01:22:08.920
need to be better trained and better equipped and have better leadership to be in the situation
01:22:16.740
that they're in now. Imagine, if you will, if the United States went to war and all of the U.S.
01:22:22.580
Army Rangers and all of the U.S. Army Green Berets and all of the U.S. Army 82nd Airborne was gone and
01:22:27.100
deployed and we needed more people. So we call up the Boy Scout PAC-902 and say, get your guns, boys.
01:22:35.440
We who called them up would be doing them a disservice. Israel has done the IDF a disservice.
01:22:40.720
And they're in a position where they're in way over their heads. So the behavior that I saw
01:22:47.380
is classic. I've seen this throughout my entire career. It's a matter of discipline. It's a matter
01:22:53.980
of leadership. And the same thing I say that I've said before, my issues with the GHF down,
01:23:01.540
it's not the men on the ground that are trying to do their best in the situation they're in. Now,
01:23:06.260
have some made some bad decisions that have done things that are just completely
01:23:09.240
off the field? Yes, they have. There's always a bad actor.
01:23:13.940
But it's the leadership. The leadership has failed to provide guidance and resources and education
01:23:18.820
and training. Same with the IDF in Gaza. Their leadership has failed them because they've put
01:23:24.240
them into a situation that is untenable and that you cannot avoid. You can't avoid the civilian deaths
01:23:31.440
because 8,000 to 9,000 people rushing through your... Imagine if you're an infantry platoon leader
01:23:38.080
and you have your patrol base and you're protecting your platoon and you're defending yourself
01:23:42.520
and 8,000 to 9,000 people rush through your area. What are you supposed to do?
01:23:49.860
There's not much you can do. And the leadership haven't provided them with any guidance on how to
01:23:54.440
control that situation, just like they didn't provide any guidance to the UG Solutions personnel
01:23:58.260
and how to control that situation. This is a leadership problem that touches all the way down
01:24:03.520
to the tactical level. Now, the IDF should be held accountable for that. Regardless of why it
01:24:10.420
happened, when you shoot at civilians with tanks, mortars, rifles, machine guns, when you purposely
01:24:16.860
displace the population, when you purposely use razor wire, again, razor wire banned by the Geneva
01:24:24.680
Convention for the use of civilian purposes for hospitals, water points, and distribution
01:24:28.120
sites. And that's why we're using razor wire. And the UG Solutions asked for that. When they did,
01:24:32.940
I was like, whoa, whoa, step back, cowboy. That's not a good idea. That violates Geneva Convention.
01:24:38.380
We can't use razor wire. Well, there's no difference. And I was like, there is. There's a difference
01:24:42.840
between barbed wire, concertina wire, and razor wire. And razor wire is specifically condemned
01:24:47.060
to the Geneva Convention to use at civilian sites. Don't use it. IDF gave it to us. They said it was
01:24:52.200
fine. Okay, so let's just rack up another war crime. So the IDF should be held accountable.
01:24:59.240
These things should be investigated. The IDF, I think, they've already kind of alluded to this.
01:25:06.320
I don't know if it's happening or not. They seriously need to go through their army and have
01:25:11.380
a seriously restructuring of discipline and standards and leadership. I'm not prepared to
01:25:16.820
say that the entire IDF is that way. But from what I saw from an entire division, the 403rd
01:25:22.560
Division Israeli Reserve in the South, they need a serious sit-down talk amongst themselves to fix
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Colonel, I'm grateful. God bless you for doing this. You don't benefit from it. You will be
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attacked. I think anyone who watches what you just said can make up his own mind about your
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credibility and your integrity. But from my perspective, you are absolutely the best that we
01:25:59.040
Thank you. I appreciate the time and thank you for all you do.