WASHINGTON
Anthony Aguilar spent 25 years in the US Army’s Special Forces, serving in active combat zones around the world. But nothing, he says, compared to what he witnessed in Gaza.
A retired Green Beret who briefly worked on the US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), Aguilar says he saw daily “war crimes” committed under the banner of humanitarian aid.
Now, he calls the project itself a war crime.
“The sites that were established in Gaza to distribute aid were, in and of themselves, a war crime and violation of international law,” Aguilar told Anadolu in an exclusive interview. “They were built in areas that put the civilian population at inherent danger and risk.”
Aguilar joined the GHF initiative as a subcontractor with the private firm UG Solutions in mid-2025. He resigned two months later, saying the operation endangered the very people it claimed to help.
‘Failure of US leadership’
Calling the humanitarian crisis in Gaza “a failure of US leadership,” Aguilar blamed the Trump administration and senior officials.
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