| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Pope calls for an immediate end to the barbarity in Palestine. | |
| Posted by: | Gerry Boyce | |
| Date/Time: | 25/07/25 21:31:00 |
| “More than 1,000 Palestinians, the UN says, have been killed trying to get food from distribution points Israel set up in Gaza in May. A recently retired American Special Forces Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Aguilar was hired by the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation as part of its armed security team that works alongside the Israeli military, the IDF, to secure the sites. Lieutenant Colonel Aguilar told the BBC that he resigned after, in May and June, he witnessed the IDF and some of his American colleagues killing civilians using live fire to control huge crowds of desperate, starving people. “I witnessed the Israeli Defense Forces shooting at the crowds of Palestinians. I witnessed the Israeli Defense Forces firing a main gun tank round into a crowd of people, destroying a car of civilians that were simply driving away from the site. I witnessed mortar rounds being fired at the crowds of people to keep them controlled on to the Marague corridor in the south.” “My professional opinion of how the sites were established was what I would describe as amateur, inexperienced, untrained, no idea of how to conduct operations of this magnitude. That would be my most benign assessment. In my most frank assessment, I would say that they're criminal. And I have fought ISIS, I have fought the Taliban. In my entire career, I have never witnessed the level of brutality and use of indiscriminate and unnecessary force against a civilian population, an unarmed, starving population. I've never witnessed that in all of the places I've been deployed to war until I was in Gaza at the hands of the IDF and US contractors. Israel and the management of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation insist that their forces have not targeted civilians. Lieutenant Colonel Aguilar's eyewitness testimony adds to the considerable and convincing weight of evidence that they have done so as a matter of routine.” |