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Aguilar has blown the whistle on the GHF after witnessing Israeli soldiers and US contractors fire on crowds of unarmed, hungry Palestinians at GHF aid sites. "What I witnessed in Gaza, I can only describe as a dystopian, post-apocalyptic wasteland," he told Democracy Now in an interview that aired on Tuesday.
"We " we, the United States " are complicit. We are involved, hand in hand, in the atrocities and the genocide that is currently undergoing in Gaza," Aguilar said.
In a conversation with US Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Aguilar recalled a young boy who trekked miles to reach a GHF site with no shoes and picked up what little food supplies he could find on the ground. "He was so thankful for even that, then he walked up to me and I beckoned him to come forward and he grabbed my hand and kissed my hand and he said shukran, shukran (thank you)," Aguilar told the senator.
After the boy, whose name was Amir, left the GHF site, Aguilar said he was killed by the IDF. "The IDF opened up with machine gun fire into the crowd to get them to leave faster, to get them to hurry. Shooting at their foot, shooting over their heads, shooting into the berm ... so I ran up to the berm to look, and there were dead Palestinians. He was one of them," Aguilar said, pointing to a photo of Amir.
"He kissed me, and he said thank you in English, thank you. And he collected his items, and he walked back to the group," he said.
"Then he was shot at with pepper spray, tear gas, stun grenades and bullets shot at his feet [and then] in the air, and he runs away scared, and the IDF [Israeli army] were shooting at the crowd.
"They're shooting into this crowd and Palestinians - civilians, human beings - are dropping to the ground, getting shot. And Amir was one of them."