US mercenary firm tied to notorious aid scheme recruiting for new Gaza deployment: Report

UG Solutions, a leading US military subcontractor that previously provided security for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) and helped run Gaza’s deadly aid distribution system, is aggressively recruiting for a new round of deployments to the blockaded Palestinian territory, a media report says. 

A former army officer who recently applied for a position told Drop Site that a UG Solutions official openly described plans for more than a dozen new aid sites in Gaza.

The officer further emphasized that the company was “going to need a lot more guys.”

Applicants are reportedly being told deployments could begin by December, with salaries of up to $1,000 per day plus per diem.

One recruit described interviews focused on weapons tests, “rules of escalation,” and questions about whether he would obey superiors regardless of past military rank. After multiple rounds of vetting, he was abruptly rejected.

The renewed push for contractors comes as Gaza stands at yet another breaking point following the UN Security Council’s approval of a US-sponsored resolution.

The resolution is based on US President Donald Trump’s 20-point project for Gaza’s future, including only a single line that envisions the possibility of a future Palestinian state.

It hands sweeping authority over the Strip to a Trump-chaired “Board of Peace,” an unelected body empowered to direct reconstruction, security, economic policy, and even the distribution of humanitarian aid—outside any UN command structure.

Critics and independent observers argue that the US draft seeks to use the UN’s authority to normalize Israel’s genocide and impose another foreign regime on Palestinians.

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There are other indications of a ramped-up US presence being planned in Gaza. On September 25, just one day after the $30 million GHF contract officially ended, a new US contract with a company called Q2IMPACT was initiated, amounting to $7 million over five years to “monitor the efficacy of humanitarian aid in Palestine and Lebanon.”

The report also revealed the hiring of US biker gang members with histories of anti-Muslim hate speech.

Anthony Aguilar, a US Army veteran and former contractor for GHF, recently exposed that the security apparatus in the Gaza Strip was run by the Infidels Motorcycle Club, a notorious Islamophobic American biker gang consisting of military veterans.

Infidels Motorcycle Club forces, who are armed with automatic weapons, machine guns, tear gas, and stun grenades, go to Gaza to supposedly deliver food, but they actually “have a charter … based on … eliminating all Muslims from the earth,” he pointed out.

The GHF operates like the mafia, Aguilar emphasized, “but the mafia at least has principles. They don’t kill children.”

The use of private military contractors in aid distribution in Gaza first began in May, with GHF opening four distribution sites in Gaza guarded by security contractors, many of whom were American.

During the four and a half months that the GHF-operated sites were guarded by UG contractors, more than 2,600 Palestinians seeking food were killed and over 19,000 wounded by Israeli forces or security contractors at or near distribution points.

Videos obtained by media outlets showed its guards firing live ammunition and stun grenades at nearly every distribution, “even if there was no threat.”

This is while a subcontractor resigned, describing the sites as “death traps.” Despite this, UG Solutions insists it may return to Gaza if requested by the Trump-led Board of Peace.

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Israeli lawmakers say the cabinet is behind a shadowy network of US humanitarian and mercenary organizations, including the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).

Meanwhile, civil rights organizations in North Carolina, where the company is headquartered, have called for state investigations into its conduct. They have warned that no corporation should profit from violence against starving civilians.

Last month, the North Carolina chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-NC) called on the North Carolina secretary of state and the state attorney general to investigate UG Solutions for its actions in Gaza.

“Companies incorporated in North Carolina must not be complicit in war crimes or human rights abuses abroad,” Al Rieder, the manager of CAIR-NC, said in a statement.

“The evidence that a North Carolina-based company allegedly participated in attacks on starving civilians in Gaza is horrifying. We are urging the state’s top officials to uphold the law and ensure that North Carolina is not used as a base for operations that contribute to the suffering of innocent people.”

The GHF sites were dismantled after a US-brokered ceasefire took effect in the besieged Palestinian territory.

Western governments have largely supported the Israeli regime’s genocide in Gaza since October 7, 2023, which has killed nearly 70,000 Palestinians, primarily women and children.

Since the ceasefire went into effect on October 10, Israel has violated the deal by continuing to attack Gaza, killing at least 290 Palestinians, and by not allowing the agreed-upon 600 aid trucks per day into Gaza, which the United Nations has said in the past is the bare minimum amount needed.

In August, the world’s leading expert on food crises, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, declared a famine in Gaza.

Over 450 Palestinians, including over 150 children, have died of starvation and malnutrition in Gaza between October 2023 and the end of September, according to the Gaza health ministry.

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