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🗓️ 1 August 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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0:00.0 | Today, President Trump's top Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, and the U.S. ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, made a rare visit to Gaza to assess, quote, the facts on the ground of the U.S.-Israeli-backed humanitarian aid initiative called the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. |
0:18.0 | GHF has been delivering aid into Gaza since late May, and today said it crossed 100 million |
0:23.9 | meals delivered. |
0:25.3 | The UN says hundreds of Palestinians have been killed outside GHF sites, and the leading |
0:30.5 | authority on global hunger warns that Gaza's population of over 2 million is now closer to famine |
0:36.5 | than at any point in the conflict. |
0:39.1 | Tonight we have a special report with report with former American contractors from UG Solutions, |
0:44.5 | which works with GHF in Gaza. Here's Nick Schifrin. |
0:49.6 | To my rear is Gaza City. |
0:51.8 | Anthony Aguilar arrived in Gaza in mid-May, aware it would be difficult. |
0:57.0 | So we had 60, 70,000 people. |
0:59.0 | But believing it should be done. |
1:02.0 | There's the choice to do nothing, and then there's the choice to try. |
1:06.0 | You are a retired Army Special Forces, Lieutenant Colonel, Green Beret. |
1:11.6 | And the Army sent me a list of your deployments, Iraq, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Jordan, and the Philippines. |
1:18.6 | Why did you want to become a security contractor in Gaza? |
1:22.6 | The mission to me seemed noble and worthy of my time and energy, |
1:28.3 | and I felt that I had a unique set of skills and experience |
1:33.3 | that I felt could lend to that mission to help it succeed. |
1:38.3 | Feeding, starving hungry people, I think is a good thing to do. |
1:45.1 | And in the end, what did you determine about the mission? |
1:49.3 | The purpose of the mission, I think, is still noble, feeding starving people. |
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