Gaza Humanitarian Foundation: “We Spend An Enormous Amount Of Time And Energy Correcting All This Disinformation”
“Gaza Humanitarian Foundation” chairman Johnnie Moore told “FOX News Sunday” host Shannon Bream not to trust a single word from self-described whistleblower retired Green Beret Lt. Col. Tony Aguilar, who told Tucker Carlson this week that the group is complicit in war crimes. “I don’t think you can trust a single thing that this person says,” Moore said. “This is not a credible person and these aren’t credible allegations.”
SHANNON BREAM: I want to talk about this whistleblower who is a veteran who has talked about, he says, inside what’s going on with GHF and the security force and how that shows up. The BBC is reporting this. “Retired U.S. Special Forces officer who worked at GHF centers told the BBC last week he witnessed IDF troops and U.S. contractors shooting at crowds of Palestinians near sites where he worked.” He said, “He’d never seen such a level of brutality and use of indiscriminate and unnecessary force on starving civilians.” JOHNNIE MOORE, EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN, GAZA HUMANITARIAN FOUNDATION: This is not a credible person and these aren’t credible allegations. And so much so that we immediately, when people started, again, laundering this information around the world, we did a full briefing. And I won’t waste time, you know, with the details here, but you can go watch it online. Twenty minutes, we show the text messages, the contracts, everything. We put it all. And it — it begins with the fact that — that he even says he resigned. He didn’t resigned. He was fired for misconduct. I don’t think you can trust a single thing that this person says. And in the meantime, it’s a distraction. It’s a distraction from what is real acute food insecurity in the Gaza Strip. We’re doing all we can to help. We spend an enormous amount of time and energy correcting all this disinformation and misinformation. And — and in the meantime, President Trump, I mean, he sent his own envoy and the ambassador to Israel to our sites just — just on Friday. They saw with their own eyes. They met the beneficiaries whose lives that we’re saving. And then, coincidentally, they happened to simultaneously see U.N. aid convoys taken over by people at gunpoint. So Hamas can steal the food, prolong the war, resupply and replenish themselves. This war needs to end. Everybody believes it. The suffering is intense. Everybody knows it. And we can solve the problem. That’s what GHF has proven. We don’t — the cost of doing business for feeding people isn’t that 90 percent of your food is stolen by the globally designated terrorist organization. BREAM: To — I want to make sure that we get to this, because this is something that the — the senator brought up. This issue that there isn’t widespread Hamas takeover of the food items as they try to go in. “The New York Times” says, “There’s no proof of that the Israeli military never found proof that the Palestinian militant group had systematically stolen aid from the U.N. They cite two senior Israeli military officials, two other Israelis.” Then a guest opinion piece in “The New York Times” said that as well, “There are no verified cases of Hamas’s looting aid from convoys on a large scale.” MOORE: But you — you can always find people that will anonymously have some — some point of view. The truth is on this issue, before the United Nations started lying about it, they actually were telling the truth about it. And there’s all kinds of public databases. You can go to @ghfupdates on X. We put the — we put it there. I mean, this figure of 90 percent of the WFP trucks not making it, we actually — they disclosed it. We didn’t make — we didn’t make it up. It’s on the website. And I’ll say it again here, Shannon. Every single day, we send a message to the Secretary General, to the Head of the World Food Programme, whom the senator mentioned. Every single day, we want to work with you to help these people. We’re the ones with our hand extended, and they keep knocking it away from us. And in the meantime, we’re just going to keep serving, because that’s what the President of the United States told us to do. We’re doing it. And the facts matter. And the fact is, 105 million meals free to the people of Gaza, not one truck stolen by Hamas. That’s the only thing that matters. And by the way, we could do more. We could do more. We — we’ve helped a million Gazans. We could help all of them.
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