Grayzone UK
New footage exposes ragtag US mercenaries firing toward Gaza aid seekers
Max Blumenthal and Wyatt Reed
Following an AP investigation accusing a US mercenary firm of firing on desperate Gaza aid seekers, the company has released extensive new footage in an attempt at damage control. But the video only further implicates the scandal-plagued operation.
On July 2, the Associated Press released an exposé containing short videos which appeared to show American mercenaries associated with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) opening fire on aid-seekers in Gaza during an incident in southern Gaza this May. The footage was supplied by a former employee of UG Solutions, a firm charged with securing GHF distribution sites.
“I think you hit one,” one soldier of fortune says to another following a loud burst of gunfire.
“Hell yeah, boy!” another exclaims.
In an apparent attempt to control the damage from the AP investigation, UG Solutions has distributed a pair of videos comprising over seven minutes of footage to the press.
The newly released footage offers an unprecedented glimpse of the disturbing interactions between the starving population of Gaza and well-armed, clearly unprepared Americans hired to provide security for GHF’s chaotic aid operations.
Filmed by one of its own employee, the recordings were seemingly distributed in an effort to show UG Solutions’ agents have not fired live bullets on unarmed crowds of Palestinians. According to a UG Solutions statement, the videos “not only clarify what happened, but provide critical context, which contradicts that [sic] AP’s reporting and shows that the accusations are unfounded.”
However, a closer examination by The Grayzone demonstrates that the video was anything but exculpatory.
In one video, a ragtag group of mercenaries can be seen firing what they called “warning shots” toward a crowd of Palestinian civilians, whom they acknowledged to be non-threatening, before radioing the notoriously trigger-happy Israeli military for backup.
Following a series of nearby gunshots, a UG Solutions mercenary can be heard radioing the IDF to inform them, “We are firing warning shots. Warning shots – that’s from us,” he says. Like all others heard in the video, he speaks in an American accent.
Seconds before the gunshots ring out, a UG Solutions agent can be seen in the lower left hand corner of the screen aiming his rifle in the direction of a crowd of aid seekers.
These crucial pieces of evidence undermine claims by a UG Solutions spokesman, who told the AP he was “unaware of video showing gunfire from someone believed to be a UG Solutions contractor.”
While eroding the mercenary firm’s defense, the UG Solutions video also underscores the shambolic state of GHF’s supposedly humanitarian operations.
Mercenary candid camera exposes “amateur hour”
In the footage, the mercenary filming acknowledges that he and his fellow guns for hire are unable to exchange even basic Arabic phrases with the starving crowds.
“Think I’m gonna write down some… Arabic words,” he says, before rattling off a series of expressions that reflected his team’s lack of training and utter inability to communicate: “Tomorrow. Back. Go home. Stop.”
The mercenary tacitly acknowledges that in the absence of translation help, he and his team have been forced to rely on English speaking Gazan aid seekers. “There were a couple [Palestinians] that, like you said, spoke decent English, that were pretty helpful.”
“I think for the most part they don’t have any mal intent, because they’re desperate,” the American continues, noting the absence of genuine security threats.
A nearby mercenary chimes in, “They’re desperate as fuck.”
Later, the cameraman complains that refugees hauled off a light pole and a nearby tree — presumably for firewood — before grumbling that the desperate crowds took GHF’s distribution tables from the site as well.
The unsettling video seems to corroborate a high ranking UG Solutions contractor’s characterization of the firm’s Gaza operations as “amateur hour.”
US spooks and ISIS affiliates team up with Israel. What could go wrong?
UG Solutions splits armed operations in the besieged Gaza Strip with another US private mercenary firm, Safe Reach Solutions, which was founded by former CIA operative Philip Reilly.
Both operate under the auspices of the Trump-aligned Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which received an initial investment from McNally Capital, a private equity firm founded by mapping heir Ward McNally. The Grayzone has reported that GHF also appears to have received substantial funding from Israel’s Mossad and Ministry of Defense.
The US Department of State has since pledged $30 million dollars to keep the scandal-stained GHF operations afloat.
As of July 6, 2025, over 700 people had been killed at the hands of the only armed factions operating in the so-called “humanitarian zones”: the GHF, Israel, and the formerly ISIS-aligned clan of Bedouin gang leader Yasser Abu Shabab, who was recently deputized as Israel’s local enforcers.
Several Israeli soldiers have told Haaretz that they received orders to fire at aid seekers drawn to GHF distribution hubs, causing high numbers of deaths and injuries. “Where I was stationed, between one and five people were killed every day,” one soldier told the Israeli paper. “They’re treated like a hostile force – no crowd-control measures, no tear gas – just live fire with everything imaginable: heavy machine guns, grenade launchers, mortars.”
Following an AP investigation accusing a US mercenary firm of firing on desperate Gaza aid seekers, the company has released extensive new footage in an attempt at damage control. But the video only further implicates the scandal-plagued operation.
On July 2, the Associated Press released an exposé containing short videos which appeared to show American mercenaries associated with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) opening fire on aid-seekers in Gaza during an incident in southern Gaza this May. The footage was supplied by a former employee of UG Solutions, a firm charged with securing GHF distribution sites.
“I think you hit one,” one soldier of fortune says to another following a loud burst of gunfire.
“Hell yeah, boy!” another exclaims.
In an apparent attempt to control the damage from the AP investigation, UG Solutions has distributed a pair of videos comprising over seven minutes of footage to the press.
The newly released footage offers an unprecedented glimpse of the disturbing interactions between the starving population of Gaza and well-armed, clearly unprepared Americans hired to provide security for GHF’s chaotic aid operations.
Filmed by one of its own employee, the recordings were seemingly distributed in an effort to show UG Solutions’ agents have not fired live bullets on unarmed crowds of Palestinians. According to a UG Solutions statement, the videos “not only clarify what happened, but provide critical context, which contradicts that [sic] AP’s reporting and shows that the accusations are unfounded.”
However, a closer examination by The Grayzone demonstrates that the video was anything but exculpatory.
In one video, a ragtag group of mercenaries can be seen firing what they called “warning shots” toward a crowd of Palestinian civilians, whom they acknowledged to be non-threatening, before radioing the notoriously trigger-happy Israeli military for backup.
Following a series of nearby gunshots, a UG Solutions mercenary can be heard radioing the IDF to inform them, “We are firing warning shots. Warning shots – that’s from us,” he says. Like all others heard in the video, he speaks in an American accent.
Seconds before the gunshots ring out, a UG Solutions agent can be seen in the lower left hand corner of the screen aiming his rifle in the direction of a crowd of aid seekers.
These crucial pieces of evidence undermine claims by a UG Solutions spokesman, who told the AP he was “unaware of video showing gunfire from someone believed to be a UG Solutions contractor.”
While eroding the mercenary firm’s defense, the UG Solutions video also underscores the shambolic state of GHF’s supposedly humanitarian operations.
Mercenary candid camera exposes “amateur hour”
In the footage, the mercenary filming acknowledges that he and his fellow guns for hire are unable to exchange even basic Arabic phrases with the starving crowds.
“Think I’m gonna write down some… Arabic words,” he says, before rattling off a series of expressions that reflected his team’s lack of training and utter inability to communicate: “Tomorrow. Back. Go home. Stop.”
The mercenary tacitly acknowledges that in the absence of translation help, he and his team have been forced to rely on English speaking Gazan aid seekers. “There were a couple [Palestinians] that, like you said, spoke decent English, that were pretty helpful.”
“I think for the most part they don’t have any mal intent, because they’re desperate,” the American continues, noting the absence of genuine security threats.
A nearby mercenary chimes in, “They’re desperate as fuck.”
Later, the cameraman complains that refugees hauled off a light pole and a nearby tree — presumably for firewood — before grumbling that the desperate crowds took GHF’s distribution tables from the site as well.
The unsettling video seems to corroborate a high ranking UG Solutions contractor’s characterization of the firm’s Gaza operations as “amateur hour.”
US spooks and ISIS affiliates team up with Israel. What could go wrong?
UG Solutions splits armed operations in the besieged Gaza Strip with another US private mercenary firm, Safe Reach Solutions, which was founded by former CIA operative Philip Reilly.
Both operate under the auspices of the Trump-aligned Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which received an initial investment from McNally Capital, a private equity firm founded by mapping heir Ward McNally. The Grayzone has reported that GHF also appears to have received substantial funding from Israel’s Mossad and Ministry of Defense.
The US Department of State has since pledged $30 million dollars to keep the scandal-stained GHF operations afloat.
As of July 6, 2025, over 700 people had been killed at the hands of the only armed factions operating in the so-called “humanitarian zones”: the GHF, Israel, and the formerly ISIS-aligned clan of Bedouin gang leader Yasser Abu Shabab, who was recently deputized as Israel’s local enforcers.
Several Israeli soldiers have told Haaretz that they received orders to fire at aid seekers drawn to GHF distribution hubs, causing high numbers of deaths and injuries. “Where I was stationed, between one and five people were killed every day,” one soldier told the Israeli paper. “They’re treated like a hostile force – no crowd-control measures, no tear gas – just live fire with everything imaginable: heavy machine guns, grenade launchers, mortars.”
“US ragtag mercenaries” wear uniforms. They comply with wartime rules, and Gaza is a war zone. But very aneh, for the last 18 months NOT A SINGLE Harm-ass terrorist has been seen fighting, only “civilians” including “children” carrying AK47s. Fighting a war in civilian clothes is against wartime rules because it endangers real civilians, but Harm-ass has no problems with that.
ReplyDeletemfer, don't u understand that “US ragtag mercenaries” r PAID soldiers!
DeleteThere r separate international sanctioned rules for these moneyed killers.
Hamas ISN'T a miltirary setup. It's a native revolutionary force AGAINST foreign invaders.
If KT keep repeating the same Berita Karut then I will repeat the same answer:
ReplyDeleteThe UN uses a 1 to 5 IPC scale to measure food insecurity around the world, 1 means no food insecurity, 5 means famine.
https://www.un.org/unispal/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/IPC_Famine_Factsheet.pdf
Some time ago UN already declared Gaza was in stage 5 meaning FAMINE. Using their own scale the calculated deaths would be in the HUNDREDS EVERY DAY, far exceeding the dozen or so deaths reported by Harm-ass and the UN Agencies themselves, and even then the reported deaths were not due to starvation but by gunshots, fired by Harm-ass agitators disguised in civilian clothes and blamed on IDF.
Watch the video to educate yourself. Don’t be Gullible Guppies but If you insist on being a GG then open your mouth wide wide and derma your RM100 to Tabung Kebuluran Gaza Ikan Guppy Yang Bodoh.
https://youtu.be/qD86fs0V1CI?feature=shared
u know GG?
DeleteOoop… then u r lower than lowest compared with the GG that u kept quoting!
But do u care?
Some cultures promote Death. Watch to learn what they teach their children in their schools run by a certain UN Refugee Agency whose aim is to perpetuate, not resettle, refugees.
ReplyDeletehttps://youtu.be/aJxjmEbUZxM?feature=shared
same story in the early days of Likud.
DeleteKnow who Likud is, mfer?
A Hard To Digest Culture in the Video below.
ReplyDeleteAny supporters of this culture please sign below.
https://youtu.be/NJYhwtn5wcI?feature=shared
wakakakaka… definitely no comparison with yr f*cked zionism!
DeleteThis is not a war over land. Ishmaels already have 99.999% it. Giving them the other 0.001% will not satisfy them because the war is a religious one: Isaacs must be genocided from The River to The Sea. This is also why the Ishmaels will never accept a Two-State Solution. Isaacs already accepted Two-State Solution multiple times since 1948, the first time was accepting the UN Resolution in 1948 itself.
ReplyDeletehttps://youtu.be/qitKfYgwTuQ?feature=shared
wow… u sure that ' (zionist state) already accepted Two-State Solution multiple times since 1948'!!!!
DeleteYr idol satanyahu says otherwise many a time that zionist state DOES NOT recognise Two-State Solution. Same with many of those zionist extremists
Those rejected Europe rejected zionists HAVE no claim whatsoever on any land in Levant. They could fart kaw x2 till their zion comes to accepting them back to the sea, PERIOD!
An American journalist visits the West Bank to interview the local “Palestinians” You will be shocked by what they have to say. And these are the people France and Bob Carr want Oz to give recognition. Simply put, it is the “Palestinians” themselves who reject it and they all sapot terrorist Harm-ass.
ReplyDeletehttps://youtu.be/jkwdC0iU_3g?feature=shared
aiyah, cease your kerbau-ing
DeleteThis is no kerbau.
ReplyDeleteActual Genocide of Druze and Christians in Syria just days ago but no Poop or Peep by Al Jezebel.
Foreign Press are allowed inside Syria, but nobody want to report. No Jews No Views.
Why? Let me sagest: No Isaacs involved. But When Ishmaels commit Genocide, it is OK, nothing to see, Move On to Gaza, Gaza, Gaza.
https://youtu.be/sbLPDJLG7u0?feature=shared
https://youtu.be/e-iziN2MSgM?feature=shared
More Berita Terkini, Ishmaels MASSACRE and GENOCIDE of minorities in Syria....Kristian Pastor and Family SLAUGHTERED by Ishmaels.....just days ago, but no sign of Al Jezebel reporters. They are all in Gaza.
ReplyDeletehttps://youtu.be/UqzHl8T3ug0?feature=shared
https://youtu.be/gl6nMZ7HI2o?feature=shared
For three days recently there was a GENOCIDE of Oct 7 proportions in Syria, a SLAUGHTER of DRUZE by Ishmaels, but the world was SILENT. The DRUZE could not fight back, that was why Isaac help them out by bombing selected Ishmael targets in Syria.
ReplyDeleteThe mainstream media like Al Jezebel only report Isaacs bombing Syria like they were the aggressors but they did not report why.......the earlier MASSACRE of civilians in Suweida. All their reporters are in Gaza Gaza Gaza.
Where is The Useful Idiot Greta Thunberg?
https://youtu.be/sbLPDJLG7u0?feature=shared