Dave Decamp – AntiWar.com Aug 14, 2025
In an interview published by The Times of Israel on Wednesday, US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee justified the Israeli military’s shooting of unarmed Palestinians attempting to get aid in the Gaza Strip.
Defending the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), Huckabee downplayed the reports of people being killed by the IDF near GHF sites but admitted that it does happen. “Have there been instances where maybe people were shot by IDF soldiers? Best I can tell, that has happened,” the ambassador said.
Huckabee claimed that IDF soldiers only fire at civilians when they’re being rushed by a large crowd. “You have a group of, let’s say, 10 or 15 IDF soldiers. They’re manning a perimeter. You have 2,000 or 3,000 people who suddenly are rushing toward a position. They’re first given a verbal warning. Please stop. Second thing they get, shots fired in the air. Third thing, shots fired at the ground. And if they’re still rushing toward them, it’s probable that some people are shot in the midst of that because [the soldiers] don’t know why they’re coming. Are they coming to overrun the position?” he said.
But eyewitness accounts from Palestinians contradict Huckabee’s claims, and videos have shown groups of unarmed Palestinians coming under fire while taking cover. Tony Aguilar, a retired US Army Green Beret who worked at GHF sites, has said the IDF regularly fires live ammunition at unarmed people as a form of “crowd control,” including when their backs are turned and they are walking away from GHF sites.
Israel’s use of live ammunition on aid seekers has included tank and artillery shells. Huckabee appeared to mock the idea of using “non-lethal” means of crowd control during the interview. The interviewer said that he wished there were “non-lethal crowd control methods” being used in Gaza, and Huckabee replied, “Don’t we all.”
The interviewer then noted that there are non-lethal means to control a crowd, to which Huckabee replied, “What are you going to do? Get Girl Scouts to take them in?”
Since the GHF began operating at the end of May, the Health Ministry in Gaza has recorded the killing of 1,881 aid seekers and the wounding of 13,863. The majority of the casualties occurred near GHF sites, while many others were killed or hurt while attempting to reach UN aid trucks. According to UN numbers from August 1, 1,373 Palestinians have been killed while seeking food; 859 in the vicinity of the GHF sites and 514 along the routes of food convoys.
“They’re first given a verbal warning. Please stop. …”
Yea those “good” jews don’t want to hurt anyone as they rob Palestine from the Palestinian people. Imagine an armed kike saying “please stop” to a Palestinian. It’s as laughable as this fat stooge Huckabee .
Two fat liars: Huckabee and Trumpstein.
LOL…
this bull dog faced imbecile don’t mean no harm, he’s just flying the flag for freedumb and demockracy..ole glory..he’s as american as apple pie and mac mansions..and institutional racism..
he knows you can’t make a yankee 48 egg breakfast omelette and stack of granny’s pan cakes fer one..without dousing some gooks in dioxin..or gunnin’ down some starvin’ raghead infants…
it’s the american way dam ya..
so god bless IS-RA-EL..and come take me jesus…I’m a waitin’ fer ya…
“Huckabee”???
Wtf!!! 😂
Hucherbee will be Divinely Punished according to his own wicked beliefs and behaviour.
and so like they once quareled + backdoor conspirated
about jesus so it goes same way with Gaza + the palestinians .
there is no news under the sun !
there is an old saying ‘it is better to remain silent and be considered a fool than speak and remove all doubt’.
Endorses murder, supplies the weapons to Israel to murder, ergo, he’s complicit, a partner in murder, in genocide with the murderous, genocidal state of Israel and the International Zionist.
Thus, over and over, Israel is not an ally to America. It is the opposite.
Mass murder and crimes against humanity, being judged by a self absorbed puffed up nobody like Huckabee. Really can’t wait until the people rise up and deal with human trash like him
Ameriturd…bloated ugly dehumanised piece of shite representing the most worthless empire in history..
USA
Useless Stupid Arseholes
When Rothschild said to Britain that they sadly had no land, he should have been told that you don’t need land when you have all the money
did you know ?
that 3 out of 4 jews
are as fat and disgustng
as the other one