In an interview with the BBC, a retired US Special Forces officer revealed the reason for his resignation from his job with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation's distribution point security teams in the besieged Palestinian enclave, asserting that he witnessed Israeli forces committing war crimes.
Retired officer Anthony Aguilar said, "I saw Israeli forces firing on crowds of Palestinians" at aid distribution points. He added that he saw troops firing artillery shells at unarmed civilians.
Aguilar asserted that in all his years of service, he had never seen this level of "brutality and the indiscriminate and unnecessary use of force against a defenseless, starving civilian population."
Since late May, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has been leading a US-Israeli project to control food distribution in the Gaza Strip, coinciding with Israel's war of extermination.
The United Nations and international humanitarian and human rights organizations have rejected this project, describing it as a tool for killing, displacing, and humiliating Palestinians.
The organization has established four main distribution points, three of which are in the Tel al-Sultan area of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, and one on the Netzarim axis, which separates the northern, central, and southern Gaza Strips. American security contractors and private companies are responsible for crowd control and food distribution.
The Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip has documented the deaths of more than 1,090 Palestinians who were "martyrs of livelihood" and the injury of more than 7,320 others by Israeli occupation forces since the launch of this project.
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Retired US officer: I witnessed war crimes in Gaza