{"id":1505205,"date":"2024-11-30T02:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-30T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1505205"},"modified":"2024-11-30T02:30:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T07:30:00","slug":"us-firms-compete-for-huge-contracts-to-control-north-gaza-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/us-firms-compete-for-huge-contracts-to-control-north-gaza-security\/1505205\/","title":{"rendered":"US Firms Compete For ‘Huge Contracts’ To Control North Gaza Security"},"content":{"rendered":"

US Firms Compete For ‘Huge Contracts’ To Control North Gaza Security<\/span><\/p>\n

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Via The Cradle<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Israel is examining the launch of a “pilot program” that could see US private security firms replace the army in northern Gaza to “accompany\u00a0food and medicine<\/a>\u00a0convoys” for Palestinians who remain in the devastated region, according to a report by Israeli daily\u00a0Globes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Among the top competitors for the multi-million dollar contract are Constellis, the direct successor to infamous mercenary company\u00a0<\/strong>Blackwater<\/strong>,<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Orbis<\/a>, a little-known South Carolina company run by former generals that has worked with the Pentagon for 20 years.<\/p>\n

Image source: silentprofessionals.org<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Officials say the pilot program for north Gaza aims to “prevent Hamas or other gangs from taking over the aid trucks and free the IDF soldiers from the dangerous mission.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

In recent weeks, Gaza’s interior ministry\u00a0established<\/a>\u00a0a new police force to deal with groups of bandits and gangs that have been raiding humanitarian aid shipments and blackmailing international organizations in the southern Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n

The UN has said these gangs are likely “benefiting from a passive if not active benevolence” or “protection<\/a>”\u00a0from the Israeli army.<\/p>\n

In October, a third US security firm \u2013 Global Delivery Company (GDC) \u2013 which describes itself as “Uber for warzones”<\/strong> \u2013 claimed to be working with another firm to create and manage \u201chumanitarian bubbles<\/a>\u201d in Gaza.<\/p>\n

GDC is run by Mordechai Kahane, an Israeli businessman who worked with Israeli intelligence during the war on Syria to arm extremist groups seeking to topple the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.<\/p>\n

Although no official figure exists about the size of the contracts being offered by Tel Aviv for these mercenary firms,\u00a0Globes\u00a0cites Lt. Col. Yochanan Zoraf, a researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) and former advisor on Arab affairs in the Israeli army, as saying the figure will likely reach “billions of shekels per year.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

“These are not companies that will manage the daily lives of the residents,” Zoraf claims, adding that “peripheral responsibility for the defense of [north Gaza] as well as the civil responsibility itself” falls at Israel’s feet.<\/p>\n

The former army officer also says Tel Aviv will likely “ask that the US \u2013 or an outside party \u2013 finance the program.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

On Tuesday,\u00a0Israel Hayom\u00a0reported that the pilot program has yet to receive approval from the security cabinet “due to legal difficulties in defining the occupation” based on international law.<\/p>\n

“In order to circumvent the legal obstacles, the security services are examining bringing in external funding from humanitarian aid organizations or foreign countries for the [mercenary firms], which costs tens of millions of dollars to operate,” the report adds.<\/p>\n

Hundreds of citizens get flour from aid trucks in northern Gaza. pic.twitter.com\/bUGxHa4iiK<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Eye on Palestine (@EyeonPalestine) November 5, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n

Since the start of what UN sources and others denounce as the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, the Israeli government has turned to mercenaries to overcome an enlistment crisis. This includes cooperation with German intelligence to recruit asylum seekers from Afghanistan, Libya, and Syria.<\/p>\n

“Over the past seven months, the Values Initiative Association and the German\u2013Israeli Association (DIG) have worked to enlist these refugees from war-torn Muslim-majority countries as mercenaries for Israel. Offered monthly salaries ranging between \u20ac4,000 to \u20ac5,000 and fast-tracked German citizenship, many have joined the fight. Reports suggest that around 4,000 immigrants were naturalized between September and October alone,” writes\u00a0The Cradle\u00a0<\/a>columnist Mohamed Nader al-Omari.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nFri, 11\/29\/2024 – 21:30<\/span><\/p>\n

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