Israeli troops have killed at least 70 Palestinians and wounded hundreds as they sought aid in Gaza on Tuesday, firing at them with tank shells, machine guns and drones. Those casualties are among the 89 Palestinians killed in attacks across the besieged enclave since dawn.

Israeli soldiers fired at the desperate crowds of aid seekers on Tuesday morning as they gathered along the main eastern road in the southern city of Khan Younis. It was the latest in a sustained wave of carnage since the Israel- and United States-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) launched operations to distribute food in the territory three weeks ago.

Reports indicated more than 300 people have been killed and more than 2,000 wounded while trying to collect aid from the GHF since it launched operations in Gaza on May 26.

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    Reposting this testimony from an anonymous US mercenary who worked at the GHF aid site. The person from the statement seems to foolishly think that the aid sites were legitimate at first and decided to leak the testimony because the GHF aid sites are traps. The source is Zeteo, which is founded by former MSNBC anchor Mehdi Hasan.

    This idea that the Israeli military isn’t involved is bullshit. They’re very much involved. They have offices in our compounds. We share our radio communications with them. The higher-ups claim the Israeli military is not involved, but it feels like they’re the man behind the curtain. Sure, they’re not on-site with us, but their snipers and tanks are just hundreds of meters away. You can hear them shooting all day.

    One episode sticks with me. We were monitoring an empty site all day; sometime after dark, dozens of flatbed trucks finally brought aid. The Israeli military soon radioed in that 200 to 300 civilians a couple of kilometers (less than two miles) north were approaching. We then observed an Israeli drone go out there.

    The generous interpretation? Maybe the Israelis were firing between our position and the people in order to keep them from moving forward. I don’t think that’s the case. After all, tanks fire all day long near these aid sites. Snipers fire from what used to be a hospital. Bombs and bullets fly all day long in one direction – toward Palestinians.

    We know the Israeli military has been enforcing curfews in some parts of Gaza. I would not be surprised if the aid was delivered at night deliberately, given it would then draw people out, at which point they could be fired on as combatants, even though they weren’t. It’s very clear that the Israeli military will take any opportunity available to fire.

    People sometimes have to travel miles to get to the sites – and that means through Israeli-controlled areas. Any excuse the military can come up with to say someone is a threat, they’ll take. There’s not really any international media in these areas, and the West doesn’t really want to believe the Palestinian media, so you get to this point where the truth itself is murky. All the while, all I’ve heard all day is Israeli tanks, machine guns, snipers, and bombs.

    But never any fire from the opposite direction.

    https://zeteo.com/p/exclusive-american-security-contractor

    https://archive.is/d4A1V

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      Without even trying to invoke the name for any degree of hyperbole, the only thing I can think of to relate this level of obscene, one-sided violence to is stories from the Holocaust. I just genuinely cannot relate this type of thing to anything else.

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        They’re doing what the Germans and Japanese did before the creation of concentration death camps. One of the reasons the Germans came up with the industrialized murder machine was because their soldiers were getting all kinds of messed up from shooting and stabbing so many civilians, including children. The camps allowed them to distance themselves from the whole process, while improving how fast they could kill people in larger and larger quantities.

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    Two videos of US doctors in Gaza giving statements about treating the Palestinian victims of the aid site massacres. “Every time there’s a so-called food distribution, we know there’s going to be annihilation”

    “I don’t see any evidence of warriors. I see malnourished fathers and daughters. I see pregnant women with their babies ripped from their womb by shrapnel. I see small children, comfortable in their red sweater, having it ripped off and their arms completely annihilated.”

    https://xcancel.com/DropSiteNews/status/1934998370075996462#m

    https://xcancel.com/DropSiteNews/status/1934993577953608093#m