🎙️ This week on the Sumud Podcast, we sit down with retired US Army Special Forces Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Aguilar for one of the most difficult and urgent conversations we have ever hosted. What he believed was a humanitarian mission quickly revealed the truth of Gaza under siege. Anthony describes arriving to find Rafah destroyed, witnessing American contractors and Israeli forces firing on starving civilians, and meeting a young boy he calls Amir whose death changed everything. He reflects on complicity, conscience, and why he ultimately resigned, returned home, and began briefing US lawmakers on the atrocities he witnessed. This is a raw and necessary conversation about genocide, impunity, and the moral cost of silence.

🌍 Anthony Aguilar is a retired US Army Special Forces Lieutenant Colonel and former Green Beret who served for 25 years across Iraq, Afghanistan, and other conflict zones. In 2025 he worked with the newly formed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation through its subcontractor, UG Solutions, on what was presented as a neutral humanitarian mission. Once on the ground, he says he witnessed a coordinated system of forced displacement, engineered famine, and violent “aid” operations carried out in close coordination with Israeli authorities and supported by US contractors. His testimony has since informed media reporting, human rights investigations, and congressional briefings on US involvement in Gaza.

🔑 In this conversation, we explore

➡ How a supposed aid mission became a mechanism of displacement and control

➡ The destruction of Rafah and the true scale of civilian death

➡ Daily violence against starving families by American contractors and the IDF

➡ The ideology driving many US contractors

➡ The story of Amir and the smear campaign that followed

➡ Boston Consulting Group and the architecture of Gaza’s erasure

➡ Why Anthony chose to resign and speak publicly

➡ What the world must understand about the ongoing genocide in Gaza

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