The BBC BBC aid contractor tells that colleagues have seen the hungry Palestinians

A former security contractor for the distribution of aid supported by New Israel in Gaza was told that the BBC has witnessed their colleagues opening fire several times to the hungry Palestinians who have not pose any threat, including machine guns.

He said that one time, the fire guard opened from the observation tower with a machine gun because a group of women, children and the elderly were very slowly moving from the site.

When he was asked to respond to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), she said the allegations were categorically wrong.

They referred to a statement saying that no civilians were shot on GHF distribution sites.

GHF started its operations in Gaza at the end of May, and distributed limited aid from several locations in southern and central Gaza. After that, the siege of Israel was followed for 11 weeks in Gaza, in which no food was included in the region.

The regime has been widely criticized for forcing huge numbers of people to walk through active combat areas into a handful of sites. Since GHF began, Israeli forces have killed more than 400 Palestinians trying to recover food aid from their locations, says the United Nations and the United Nations. Israel says the new distribution system stops assistance to Hamas.

He continued his description of the accident on a GHF site – in which he said that the guards shot a group of Palestinians – the former contractor said: “As happened, another contractor opened on the site, while standing at the association overlooking the director, with 15 to 20 rounds of fire in the crowd.

“A Palestinian man fell on the ground without mobility. Then the other contractor who was standing there,” a curse, I think you got one. “Then they laughed at him.”

The contractor, who spoke to us, said, provided that his identity was not disclosed, that GHF managers unloaded his report as a coincidence, indicating that the Palestinian man could have “stumbled” or “tired and died.”

GHF claimed that the man who made these allegations is a “indignant” former contractor who has ended the behavior, which is what he denies. Paylips explained to us, indicating that he continued to pay their salaries for two weeks after leaving the position.

The man we spoke to, who said he worked on all four GHF distribution sites, described the culture of impunity with a few rules or controls.

He said that the contractors did not grant clear participation rules or standard operating procedures, and one of the team captain told them: “If I feel threatened, then he fired the killing and asked the questions later.”

He said that the culture in the company felt as if we were “going to Gaza, so they are not rules. Do what you want.”

He told me: “If the Palestinian is walking away from the site and does not show any hostile intention, and we shoot at warning clips on them regardless, we are wrong, we are criminal neglected.”

He told us that every site had CCTV watching the activity in the region, and GHF insisted that no one was hurt or called it a “absolute lie with a face.”

GHF said that the shooting heard in joint footage with the BBC from the Israeli forces.

The team’s leaders referred to Ghazan in the name of “coma he are holy”, the former contractor said, “It hints that these people have no value.”

The man also said that the Palestinians were hurting in other ways on GHF sites, for example by hitting the debris of thunderbolt bombs, being sprayed with the scepter or pushed by the crowds to the shaving wire.

He said that he witnessed several occasions that seemed to have been seriously injured, including one man who had a full box of pepper spray in the face, and a woman who said he had a metal part of a thunderbolt hand bomb, incorrectly fired at a crowd of people.

“This piece of metal hit it directly in its head and fell to the floor, and it did not move,” he said. “I don’t know if she was dead. I know the fact that she was completely unconscious and lame.”

Earlier this week, more than 170 charities and other NGOs He called for the closure of GHF. Organizations, including Oxfam and Children, say that Israeli forces and armed groups are “routinely open” to the Palestinians looking for help.

Israel deliberately depriving its soldiers shooting at a recipient, and says the GHF system provides direct help to the people they need, bypassing Hamas’s intervention.

GHF says she has provided more than 52 million meals in five weeks and that other organizations “stand beside helpless with looting of aid.”

The Israeli army launched a campaign in Gaza in response to the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023 on Israel, where about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken into account.

At least 57,130 people have been killed in Gaza since then, according to the Hamas Ministry of Health in the region.

Additional reports by Jedi Cleman and Samantha Granville