Eyewitness to Gaza’s Death Traps: A conversation with Anthony Aguilar
Date and Time
Oct 16, 2025 7:00 pm
Location
Brookland
625 Monroe St NE, Washington, District of Columbia, 20017
Oct 16, 2025 7:00 pm
Brookland
As part of its ongoing genocide in Gaza, Israel has deliberately pursued a policy of starvation. After blocking reputable aid providers like the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), Israel, backed by the U.S., limited aid to a handful of sites run by the shadowy Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF). Not only has this plan been widely condemned by humanitarian organizations, but starved Palestinians have been repeatedly massacred by Israeli soldiers and American contractors while seeking aid at the distribution sites. Retired U.S. special forces officer Anthony Aguilar worked with a security contractor at GHF sites. After witnessing war crimes first hand, he resigned and has been speaking out in hopes of halting the atrocities.
Chip Gibbons is Policy Director of Defending Rights & Dissent, where he edits the Gaza First Amendment Alert. Gibbons has extensively reported on whistleblowers, especially those sounding the alarm on human rights abuses committed in the name of national security. He is author of the forthcoming FBI history The Imperial Bureau.
Lieutenant Colonel (LTC, O-5) Anthony Aguilar was commissioned into the United States Army from the US Military Academy at West Point. He served for 25 years in the Army as a combat Infantry Officer and as a Special Forces Green Beret. Over his military career, he deployed to Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Jordan, Qatar, Tajikistan, the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam.He is a highly decorated combat veteran and was awarded the Purple Heart from being wounded in combat and the Bronze Star for Valor for combat heraldry.He was in Gaza working under GHF as a contractor from 17 May 2025 through 26 June 2025 and resigned in protest.
