{"id":313740,"date":"2025-08-16T06:38:59","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T06:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=313740"},"modified":"2025-08-17T08:21:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T08:21:27","slug":"mike-huckabee-justifies-israeli-military-killing-of-aid-seekers-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=313740","title":{"rendered":"Mike Huckabee Justifies Israeli Military Killing of Aid Seekers in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dave Decamp \u2013 AntiWar.com Aug 14, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n

In an interview published by The<\/em> Times of Israel<\/em> on Wednesday, US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee justified the Israeli military\u2019s shooting of unarmed Palestinians<\/a> attempting to get aid in the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n

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. \u201cHave there been instances where maybe people were shot by IDF soldiers? Best I can tell, that has happened,\u201d the ambassador said.<\/p>\n

Huckabee claimed that IDF soldiers only fire at civilians when they\u2019re being rushed by a large crowd. \u201cYou have a group of, let\u2019s say, 10 or 15 IDF soldiers. They\u2019re manning a perimeter. You have 2,000 or 3,000 people who suddenly are rushing toward a position. They\u2019re 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\u2019re still rushing toward them, it\u2019s probable that some people are shot in the midst of that because [the soldiers] don\u2019t know why they\u2019re coming. Are they coming to overrun the position?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

But eyewitness accounts from Palestinians contradict Huckabee\u2019s claims, and videos have shown groups of unarmed Palestinians coming under fire<\/a> while taking cover. Tony Aguilar, a retired US Army Green Beret who worked at GHF sites, has said the IDF regularly fires live ammunition<\/a> at unarmed people as a form of \u201ccrowd control,\u201d including when their backs are turned and they are walking away from GHF sites.<\/p>\n

Israel\u2019s use of live ammunition on aid seekers has included tank and artillery shells<\/a>. Huckabee appeared to mock the idea of using \u201cnon-lethal\u201d means of crowd control during the interview. The interviewer said that he wished there were \u201cnon-lethal crowd control methods\u201d being used in Gaza, and Huckabee replied, \u201cDon\u2019t we all.\u201d<\/p>\n

The interviewer then noted that there are non-lethal means to control a crowd, to which Huckabee replied, \u201cWhat are you going to do? Get Girl Scouts to take them in?\u201d<\/p>\n

Since the GHF began operating at the end of May, the Health Ministry in Gaza has recorded the killing of 1,881 aid seekers<\/a> 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<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

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The US ambassador also mocked the idea of using ‘non-lethal’ forms of crowd control by suggesting to send the ‘girl scouts’. Proving that the Trump administration is now unashamedly controlled by Zionist hardliners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":313742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=313740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313741,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313740\/revisions\/313741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/313742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=313740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=313740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=313740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}