The U.N. Human Rights Office says over 1,000 Palestinians have been killed trying to access food since May — mostly near GHF sites. This comes as a U.S. military veteran who quit his job as a security contractor for GHF says he witnessed other guards using deadly violence against unarmed civilians. The guard requested to have his face blurred and his voice scrambled to remain anonymous. He described an attack by U.S. contractors on a starving Palestinian man who had dropped to his hands and knees to pick up noodles that had fallen to the ground.

Former GHF security contractor: “This guy wasn’t armed. He wasn’t a threat. So this UG contractor sprayed an entire — an entire can of pepper spray, an entire can into this guy’s face. That’s lethal. I was standing next to these two women, and this contractor throws this stun grenade, and it lands in between me and them. This thing hit her, and she just drops, just lifeless, collapsed to the ground. It looked like she had been killed. And to me, that was the — I could not be a part of that anymore.”