Gaza aid contractor tells BBC he saw colleagues fire on hungry Palestinians

Gaza’s new security contractor for the controversial new Israel and US -backed aid distribution sites, BBC’ye colleagues, including machine guns, including the hungry Palestinians who do not pose any threats, he said.

Once, he said that a guard had opened fire from a moody rifle and a surveillance tower because a group of women, children and old people were moving very slowly from the field.

GHF said that when he was asked to respond, the allegations were categorically wrong.

They directed us to a statement that says that no civilian in GHF distribution areas were under fire.

At the end of May, the GHF started its activities in Gaza and distributed limited aid from various areas in South and Central Gaza. This followed a total of 11 weeks of Gaza by Israel, while no food entered the region.

The system was widely criticized for forcing many people to walk from active war zones to several sites. The UN and local doctors say that since GHF started, Israeli has killed more than 400 Palestinians who are trying to get food aid from their fields. Israel said the new distribution system has stopped going to Hamas.

He continued the definition of the event in one of the GHF fields – said the guards fired on a group of Palestinians – the old contractor said: “As this happened, another contractor standing on the output was opened to the crowd with 15 to 20 shots.

“A Palestinian man fell to the ground. Then the other contractor standing there, ‘Damn, I think there was one’ was like. Then they laughed.”

Speaking to us about the condition of anonymity, the contractor said that GHF executives brushed the report as a coincidence and claimed that the Palestinian man could “trigger” or “tired and fainted”.

The GHF claimed that the former contractor, who made these claims, was rejected that he was “dissatisfied formerly the” unpleasant old contractor “, which he rejected.

The man we talked about, said he was working at four of the GHF distribution areas and described the culture of unpunished with a small number of rules or controls.

He said that the contractors have not been given clear rules of participation or standard operating procedures and that they have been said by a number of leaders: “If you feel threatened, firing – then shoot to kill and ask questions”.

Culture in the company, “We enter Gaza, so there is no rule. Do what you want,” he said.

“If we are moving away from a Palestinian site and does not show any hostile intention and we are warning them, no matter what happens, we are wrong, we are negligent.” He said.

He told us that each site is a CCTV monitoring activity site there, and the GHF insistence was a “absolute bare -faced lie” that no one is hurt or shot.

GHF, BBC shared with images heard of the fire of weapons came from the Israeli forces, he said.

Team leaders called Ghazans as “zombie armies”, the contractor told me, “implying that these people are not worth.”

The former contractor also said that the Palestinians were damaging in other ways in GHF fields, for example, they hit the wreckage from the stunning hand grenades, spraying with buns or pushing them to the razor wire by crowds.

He said that he had witnessed several times that the Palestinians were seriously injured, including a man with a tin box of pepper spray on his face, and that a stunning hand bomb was shot with the metal part of a stunted crowd.

“This metal piece hit him directly and did not move, fell to the ground.” He said. “I don’t know if he’s dead. I know it’s unconscious and completely loose.”

At the beginning of this week, more than 170 charities and other NGOs He called for the closure of GHF. Organizations, including Oxfam and Save the children, say that Israeli forces and armed groups have opened fire to Palestinians who seek help.

Israel rejects that its troops deliberately fired at a help buyers, and says the GHF’s ​​system provides direct help to people who need it and has jumped Hamas’s intervention.

GHF says that more than 52 million meals in five weeks and other organizations “stop helplessly as their help is looted”.

The Israeli army launched a campaign in Gaza in response to Hamas’s attack on Israel on 7 October 2023, and about 1,200 people were killed and 251 people were hostage.

According to the Ministry of Health operated by Hamas of the region, at least 57,130 people have been killed in Gaza since then.

Additional reports by Kleiman and Samantha Granville