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vanessa_ca

(381 posts)
Wed Jul 30, 2025, 01:58 AM Yesterday

Amir. Rest in peace

⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇱JUST IN: U.S. contractor and former Green Beret Anthony Agular, who worked for the U.S.-Israeli-backed GHF, speaks out, sharing the story of a Palestinian child named Amir who went to get aid but was killed, prompting Agular to break his silence:

“On May 28, at secure distribution site #2, this young boy, Amir, walks over to me, reaches out & kisses my hand. This boy is not wearing shoes. His clothes are falling off of him because he is so skinny….He doesn’t have a box, he has half a bag of rice , lentils, and he was thanking us.

He walked 12 kilometers to get there … & when he got there he thanked us for the crumbs he got … & he set them on the ground & his frail, skeletal, emaciated hands, and he kissed me and said 'thank you.'

And then he collected his items, walked back to the group, and then he was shot at with pepper spray, and tear gas, and stunt grenades, and bullets, and he was shot at, at his feet and in the air, and he runs away...and the IDF were shooting at the crowd … they are shooting … and they are shooting into this crowd & Palestinians, civilians, human beings, are dropping to the ground, and Amir was one of them... Amir walked 12 kilometers to get food, got nothing but scraps, thanked us for it, and died.”






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sprinkleeninow

(21,336 posts)
2. Experiencing profound grief over personal things that visited me
Wed Jul 30, 2025, 02:07 AM
Yesterday
plus witnessing such as the account of this sweet innocent child.

Evil, soulless cruelty in extreme. The only way I can put this in words.

vanessa_ca

(381 posts)
4. I can't stop crying
Wed Jul 30, 2025, 02:41 AM
Yesterday

And this is only one small story in a sea of staggering tragedy. Rest in peace Amir and all the gentle souls sacrificed with such cruelty.

vanessa_ca

(381 posts)
13. Every story, every photo, all of it should kill our souls.
Wed Jul 30, 2025, 06:59 PM
15 hrs ago

How anyone can listen to this and not be broken is beyond me. Every time I try to eat, I see his little face. Free Palestine.

Woodycall

(543 posts)
5. This will get me banned,
Wed Jul 30, 2025, 03:29 AM
Yesterday

but I don't give a fuck anymore!

On this very website, in a different forum, there are cries of "unwarranted global persecution and outrage" against a "certain group" for supporting this monstrous and unholy fucking slaughter!

Fuck that goddamn twisted bullshit!

Ban me for saying that, and I'll fucking wear it proudly!

BidenRocks

(1,886 posts)
8. UCLA pays 6.5 million +
Wed Jul 30, 2025, 04:35 AM
Yesterday

to eight Jewish groups to fight antisemitism. News item

This doesn't help.

Let's pay 6.5 million to food support to starving victims.

Blue Full Moon

(2,515 posts)
9. Israel had killed a record breaking Palestinian children
Wed Jul 30, 2025, 04:38 AM
Yesterday

Right before the "conflict" began. That includes American citizens.

vanessa_ca

(381 posts)
12. Predictable. But that will be a bit difficult. Here's the FULL VIDEO
Wed Jul 30, 2025, 11:22 AM
22 hrs ago

Augular is no spring chicken. He's a Green Beret Lieutenant Colonel retired from the US Army with lots of combat experience. And, he's actually on Israel's side. His grandmother is a Holocaust survivor. Not only that, but the TONS of photographic evidence coming out of Gaza supports what he says and contradicts every lie from the Israeli government and IDF. It's not helping the IDF that its own soldiers are posting videos of their war crimes against Amalek they were brainwashed to eradicate. Augular is no Hamas sympathizer as you can hear in the full video. He's a bit brainwashed by Israeli talking points but draws the line at war crimes, like decent soldier does. He even defends the IDF soldiers and puts the blame on the GHF leadership and planning.

"Innocent civilians being shot at not because of the the evilness of the IDF soldier, but because of the lack of responsibility of the leadership and the people in charge that put these sites where they're at, that put the IDF and the UG Solutions contractors in this horrible ethical dilemma of having to having to protect yourself and having to deal with a crowd of 8 to 10,000 people. It is it's brutal. It is inhumane. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation process needs to end to then allow humanitarian aid pro groups that do that to do the aid so that the military so that the IDF is not responsible for the distribution of the aid that then puts them in a position where they either have to choose between their life or their safety or or trying to figure out who's out in the crowd of 8,000 people. It's not fair to the IDF."


Live ammunition for crowd control? Explain that one Israel. Explain luring Gazans south into cauldrons. Explain dumping the meager aid and letting people run for it in a free for all. Explain the tanks firing at the crowds. Explain the cheers when people get shot. Explain your own soldiers coming forward. Explain all the dead and starving. All the hasbara in the world copied from the IDF's press kit website won't whitewash these war crimes.

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