Barefoot and dressed in tatters, Amir has approached a GHF aid distribution point with desperate Gaza of the aid. He had traveled 12 km (7.5 miles) to recover food. And a few moments after the frail received its small aid packages, the Israeli army opened fire.
It was the story that Anthony Aguilar, an army veteran of the United States, gave in a recent interview. The former GHF entrepreneur warned the world of the help of the United States and Israeli.
On Thursday, the indignation of the GHF and the Aguilar accounts shared with American legislators and journalists continued to grow. The American senator Bernie Sanders published an Aguilar video to X noting that he “witnessed atrocities committed using dollars of American taxpayers”.
In an interview with the Israeli activist offered Gutelzon and journalist Noga Tarnopolsky on the inter -xable podcast this week, Aguilar said that Imir approached him while a host of assistance seekers began to leave a help distribution site.
Aguilar shared photos of the boy he identified as Amir – a small child who does not seem to be 10 or 12 years older.
“He puts his hand, and so I gave him to come to me. I said: “Come here”. And he holds out his hand and he holds my hand, and he kisses my hand and he says: “Shukran (thank you),” said Aguilar.
But their meeting was quickly interrupted because “peppery, tear gas, grenades and stunning balls” were shot in the air and at the feet of Amir and the crowd of still gathered aid seekers, said Aguilar.
While the “last group of people, women and children and children and grandchildren and children and babies” left the site, Aguilar said that he could hear machine guns from the Israeli army.
“They shoot to control the population in the Morag corridor. And as they do, they shoot in this crowd, … and the Palestinians, civilians, human beings, fall on the ground, are shot,” he said.
“And Amir was one of them. Amir walked 12 km to get food, only had leftovers, thanked us and died,” he said.
The health authorities said that more than 1,000 Palestinians had been killed by asking for help since the GHF began its operations at the end of May, replacing the United Nations system which had previously supervised the deliveries of aid to the enclave.
All in all, at least 60,249 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the start of the war on October 7, 2023.
‘Generated a blood bath’
Israel has argued that the distribution of assistance by the GHF, which forces applicants of help to browse long distances, is necessary to prevent Hamas from stealing aid to Gaza.
However, a recent internal analysis of the US Agency for International Development has recently found no evidence of a disorder of Hamas generalized. Israeli military officials also told the New York Times last week that they had no evidence that Hamas was systematically stolen from help.
Israel has argued that it does not intentionally target civilians, but recognized certain cases in which its forces opened fire on crowds near the distribution sites.
In the midst of international pressure and starving reports of famine deaths, Israel agreed last week to allow agencies other than the GHF to once again provide aid to Gaza.
Since the start of the war, at least 154 people, including 89 children, have died of malnutrition, most of them in recent weeks, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health, in the midst of what a world instructor has called a “worst case of famine”.
However, the UN warned that the help flow remains deeply insufficient, the net of deliveries leading to more scenes of deadly despair. Local health sources have brought in at least 15 aid seekers killed since dawn on Thursday.
The GHF rejected Aguilar as an unhappy former employee, affirming in a statement that he “had been dismissed for fault, argued to be rehired and threatened with repercussions, and now diffuses with false allegations”. But the group continues to deal with the international condemnation of the assembly.
Thursday, the French Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, Jean-Noel Barrot, said that the GHF had “generated a bloodbath” in Gaza.
Barrot said that “militarized distribution of humanitarian aid … is a scandal that is shameful and must stop”.
