✍️ By Malik Mukhtar
📍 ainnbeen.blogspot.com
Meet Anthony Aguilar. Not a protestor. Not a UN diplomat. Not a journalist sipping lattes in Tel Aviv.
He’s a retired U.S. Army Green Beret—a man who has seen war up close, who trained to neutralize threats, not to mourn the killing of barefoot children. In 2025, he signed up with UG Solutions, a U.S. contractor hired to provide “security” for the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF). Aguilar didn’t arrive in Gaza as a whistleblower. But Gaza changed him. Or more accurately, the West’s industrialized cruelty in Gaza did.
And when he finally spoke out, the world responded with predictable grace:
They fired him.
They called him a liar.
And then they buried his testimony beneath hashtags of “Never Again.”
The Boy Who Walked 12 km for Lentils
Anthony’s breaking point wasn’t the sound of mortar rounds raining on desperate civilians. Nor was it the M855 green-tip armor-piercing rounds issued to contractors—yes, you read that right: armor-piercing bullets at a food distribution site.
No. It was Amir—a 5-year-old Palestinian child, barefoot, dust-covered, who walked 12 kilometers just to get a small bag of rice and lentils.
He kissed Anthony’s hand.
Then moments later, Israeli forces fired tear gas, rubber bullets, and even live rounds into the desperate crowd.
Amir never made it home.
And let us pause to appreciate the irony: In the eyes of the Israeli military and its security contractors, a barefoot starving child—was the threat.
Aid Sites, or Death Traps in Disguise?
Anthony described the GHF sites not as sanctuaries, but as "designed death traps"—built deliberately in combat zones, surrounded by razor wire, not barbed wire. Let’s be clear: razor wire is designed to maim, not manage crowds.
Wherever he looked, he saw violations of humanitarian law dressed in the language of “Western support.”
Israel wasn’t just in control—they were commanding the show.
“Our client is the IDF,” he was told.
And when he objected to orders from Israeli liaisons to fire on civilians, including children, his morality was seen as a liability.
A Green Beret Calls It: War Crimes.
Let’s not mince words—Aguilar did not hesitate.
“Without question, I witnessed war crimes.”
This wasn’t a rogue unit. This was a systemic weaponization of hunger, where aid became bait, where food lines became killing fields, and where humanitarian work was repurposed as occupation with a PR makeover.
And while the world watched… they applauded.
The U.S. funded it.
The EU justified it.
And the Arab League?—held another conference.
When Heroes Tell the Truth, They Get Erased
After witnessing these atrocities, Aguilar went public.
GHF called him a disgruntled ex-employee.
They said he was "terminated for misconduct."
Because nothing says misconduct like trying to stop a sniper from targeting a hungry crowd.
He presented video evidence, metadata-verified and corroborated by multiple sources. But truth, it seems, is less compelling than a tidy press release from a think tank in Washington.
History Will Ask: Who Shot Amir?
Will it matter that Anthony Aguilar told the truth?
Will it matter that a boy walked for hours in hunger only to be killed for approaching food?
The shame is not that these things happened.
The shame is that we edited them out of the news.
Because in the Gaza of 2025, the world’s humanitarian conscience was fenced off behind razor wire—not to protect the starving, but to protect the lie.
🕊️ "Neutrality in the face of genocide is complicity. But when neutrality becomes policy—backed by drones, sniper rifles, and 30-second condemnations—it becomes a crime."
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📢 Share. Mourn. Rage. But above all—don’t forget Amir.
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