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JERUSALEM – The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, an Israeli-backed American enactment moving a caller assistance programme successful Gaza, connected Thursday denied a study by The Associated Press that American contractors guarding the foundation's assistance sites wrong Gaza were utilizing unrecorded ammunition and stun grenades arsenic bare Palestinians scrambled for food.
AP’s story, released Wednesday, is based connected accounts from 2 U.S. contractors who spoke anonymously due to the fact that they were revealing interior operations of their employer. They said they were coming guardant due to the fact that they were disturbed by what they considered irresponsible and unsafe practices. It draws besides connected substance messages, interior reports and videos filmed by 1 of the contractors.
The GHF said it launched an “immediate investigation” erstwhile it was archetypal contacted by the AP for comment.
“Based connected time-stamped video footage and sworn witnesser statements, we person concluded that the claims successful the AP’s communicative are categorically false,” they wrote. “At nary constituent were civilians nether occurrence astatine a GHF organisation site,” the GHF wrote.
GHF, Israeli subject disagree
In its connection Thursday, GHF said the occurrence heard successful videos obtained by The AP came from Israel’s military, located “outside the contiguous vicinity” of the assistance sites themselves. It offered nary evidence.
Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani, an service spokesman, told the AP Thursday that the service is “not wrong the sites” and “not successful the contiguous proximity to the sites.”
GHF said the gunfire successful the videos obtained by the AP “was not directed astatine individuals, and nary 1 was changeable oregon injured." The AP’s archetypal study included photos taken by the contractor showing a pistillate lying connected a donkey cart aft the contractor said she was deed successful the caput with a stun grenade, a Palestinian crying aft the contractor said helium was teardrop gassed and videos wherever the dependable of unrecorded ammunition tin beryllium heard.
Men dressed successful grey — radical whom the contractor who filmed the video identified arsenic his colleagues — tin beryllium seen lobbing aggregate stun grenades toward crowds of Palestinians squeezed into a narrow, fenced-in lane starring to 1 of the sites. The stun grenades flash arsenic they land, and Palestinians are engulfed successful heavy clouds. The contractors said they deployed capsicum spray regularly.
The contractors besides told the AP that Israel’s subject was not stationed astatine the sites oregon successful their contiguous vicinity.
The GHF called the AP’s determination not to stock the videos filmed by the contractor with them up of work “troubling.” It claimed that the “primary source” successful the communicative was a “disgruntled erstwhile contractor who was terminated for misconduct weeks earlier this nonfiction was published.”
AP decided not to stock videos earlier publication
The AP reached retired to the GHF, Safe Reach Solutions, the institution subcontracted to grip logistics for GHF, and UG Solutions, the institution that hired the information contractors, a week earlier publication.
The AP described the videos successful item successful an email to UG but decided not to stock the videos to support sources’ information during the lead-up to publication. The AP thoroughly vetted some contractors who provided grounds and verified the videos utilizing geolocation, confirming they were filmed astatine the assistance sites, and sought audio investigation from forensic experts who determined the gunfire came from wrong 50-60 meters successful astir videos and wrong 115 meters successful one.
The AP has asked to sojourn the GHF sites galore times and had not been granted access. Journalists person been incapable to sojourn the GHF sites, located successful Israeli military-controlled zones.
The GHF besides said successful its connection that it had already removed 1 contractor seen “shouting” successful a video published by the AP.
In the lawsuit of 1 video, the contractor who filmed it said helium witnessed 2 different contractors firing successful the absorption of Palestinians leaving the tract aft collecting their food. He said the contractors were egging each different on.
In the video, English-speaking men accidental “I deliberation you deed one,” and “Hell yeah, boy!” aft a burst of gunfire sounds, but who is shooting and what is being changeable astatine is obscured. The contractor filming said helium watched a antheral amid a radical of Palestinians leaving the tract driblet to the ground, successful the aforesaid absorption of the bullets being fired.
The contractor who filmed the video says helium doesn’t cognize whether anyone was deed oregon injured successful that instance. GHF did not code that relationship successful its connection Thursday but said “no 1 was changeable oregon injured.”
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