Gaza Aid Group has denied AP reports of US contractors firing Palestinians
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Gaza aid group says its report from Associated Press They claim that the US contractor fired by Palestinians who wanted assistance is wrong.
“The GHF has launched an immediate investigation when the Associated Press first raised our attention,” the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation said in the X-Post Thursday.
“Based on video footage from the timestamp and the witness statement, we concluded that the AP story claims were decisively false,” the foundation said, noting that it corresponded to the video on the AP report.
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Palestinians continue their daily lives under harsh conditions in the tiled bleeds of a destroyed building in the Jabaria refugee camp in northern Gaza. (Mahmoud SSA/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Story published Wednesday by the Associated Press I reported that “American contractors defending Gaza aid distribution sites are using live ammunition and stan-hand rena bullets as hungry Palestinians take food.”
The story says that the two US contractors who spoke to the Associated Press were anonymous and anonymous, throwing stun grenades and pepper spray at Palestinians trying to get help.
“They said their colleagues regularly lobbed Stun Grenades and pepper spray in the direction of Palestinians,” the story reads. “A contractor said a bullet was fired in all directions — in the air, on the ground, sometimes towards the Palestinians, recall at least one example of someone thinking they’d been attacked.”
The AP story included a video given by one of the contractors showing hundreds of Palestinians crowded between metal gates shaking for assistance amidst the sounds of bullets, stun grenades and pepper spray stab wounds.
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Palestinians struggle to serve meals in their community kitchens in Jabaria, the northern Gaza Strip, on Monday, May 19, 2025. (AP Photo/jehad alshrafi)
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation issued a lengthy statement on Thursday addressing the Associated Press report.
“GHF has started an immediate investigation when the Associated Press first brought these allegations to our attention,” read a statement posted to X. “Based on video footage from the timestamp and statements from the sworn witnesses, we concluded that the claims in the AP story were intermittently false. They were not directed at individuals and no one was shot or injured.”
The statement also alleges that the main source of the Associated Press’ story was a former employee “ends due to fraud several weeks before this article was published.”
“That fact, coupled with the AP’s refusal to engage in good faith prior to publication, undermines the credibility of their report,” the statement reads. “Reporting on our aid operations increasingly reflects the narratives advanced by the Hamas-controlled Gaza Ministry of Health.”
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation said it would pursue legal action.
Evacuated Palestinians are waiting to receive their free meals on Tuesday, May 27, 2025 from the charity food distribution centre in Gaza city, northern Gaza. (Photographer: Ahmad Salem/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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Fox News Digital He reached out to the Associated Press for comment, and an Associated Press spokesperson said the outlet would stand by the story.
The IDF was also contacted for comment but did not respond immediately.