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A younger Gazan boy dubbed “Amir,” who traveled to a Gaza Humanitarian Basis (GHF) distribution website and was reported as having been killed by Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) in Might, has been discovered alive hiding out along with his mom.
Each had been safely extracted from the Gaza Strip earlier this month, although the situation has not been disclosed for his or her safety.
The boy, whose full title was later found to be Abdul Rahim Muhammad Hamden, nicknamed Abboud, and who’s 8 years outdated however will flip 9 in October, appeared along with his mom, Najlaa, at GHF Safe Distribution Website (SDS) 3 late final month in a heavy disguise to keep away from detection, a GHF consultant concerned within the operation confirmed to Fox Information Digital.
An intensive inner operation by the GHF was launched to uncover the id of the boy in late July after a former GHF worker, Anthony Aguilar, a 25-year veteran of the U.S. Military and retired Inexperienced Beret Lt. Col. turned alleged “whistleblower,” gave a collection of explosive interviews during which he mentioned a 10-year-old boy he referred to as Amir had been killed by IDF forces after leaving a GHF support website on Might 28.
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Abdul Rahim Muhammad Hamden, 8 years outdated, has been found along with his mom within the Gaza Strip following a GHF investigation that concluded once they appeared as Safe Distribution Website (SDS) 3 within the Gaza Strip on Aug. 23, 2025. (Gaza Humanitarian Basis )
In his account, Aguilar confirmed photographs taken utilizing his cellphone of the boy approaching himself and one other contractor clutching luggage of meals and barefoot.
The previous Inexperienced Beret turned GHF contractor for UG Options — a subcontractor of the GHF which acquired $30 million in U.S. government funding to help its “vital work” — described to a number of retailers an emotional encounter he had had with the Palestinian baby, during which he claimed the boy had kissed his hand, touched Aguilar’s face, and thanked him for the provides of rice and lentils he had discovered.
However the footage taken by Aguilar and handed over to GHF officers earlier than it was obtained by Fox Information Digital, didn’t present this interplay ever occurred.
The GHF contested Aguilar’s account on a number of fronts and identified the hand the boy kissed was that of Aguilar’s colleague standing to his left, which the footage additionally confirmed.
Abdul Rahim Muhammad Hamden and his mom appeared on the GHF SDS 3 ending a weeks-long seek for him on Aug. 23, 2025. (Gaza Humanitarian Basis)
When requested by Fox Information Digital why he mentioned the boy engaged with him on this method regardless of what the footage reveals, he maintained his story and mentioned, “Amir kissed my proper hand. He kissed my brow, too. He thanked us and instructed us he was very hungry and grateful.”
In a number of interviews with varied retailers, Aguilar described how the boy then returned to the group the place different Palestinians had been gathered on the distribution website earlier than they had been then dispersed by GHF contractors via using pepper spray, tear gasoline, stun grenades and bullets fired into the air, forcing them to flee the compound.
Nonetheless, Fox Information Digital was instructed that the GHF didn’t but have entry to non-lethal arms within the early days of the operations, in accordance with a GHF colleague who was conscious of Aguilar’s place at SDS 3 on Might 28.
Moreover, Aguilar claimed that when the Palestinian civilians had been pushed out of the SDS heart, IDF forces then opened fireplace on the gang and killed “Amir,” together with different Palestinians. He reiterated this declare in an interview late final month during which he had instructed Dialogue Works that the boy had acquired a “shot to the torso, a shot to the leg — useless.”
However the GHF challenged Aguilar’s story — together with the situation of the place he claimed the occasion had occurred.
In one in all his first accounts of the incident on July 29 to Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., Aguilar claimed the killing occurred first exterior GHF support website SDS 1 earlier than telling MSNBC on Aug. 2 that the capturing occurred close to SDS 2, after which telling Dialogue Works final month the occasions had occurred exterior SDS 3.
On Sept. 9, Chris Hayes gave an replace on the report, telling viewers that the boy who was reported useless was, in truth, discovered to be alive. He mentioned NBC producers had confirmed that the boy was now out of Gaza in an unnamed nation.
A number of GHF sources confirmed that no such incident was reported at or exterior SDS 1 or SDS 3, and SDS 2 was not but even operational on Might 28.
Fox Information Digital confirmed in talking with a number of sources that Aguilar was on SDS 3 on Might 28.
Abdul Rahim Muhammad Hamden, 8 years outdated, has been found along with his mom within the Gaza Strip following a GHF investigation that concluded once they appeared as Safe Distribution Website (SDS) 3 on Aug. 23, 2025. (Gaza Humanitarian Basis )
In feedback to Fox Information Digital, Aguilar mentioned, “I sincerely, and with bated breath and pleasure, hope that Amir is alive. I’ve all the time mentioned as a lot. I’ve been involved along with his household and others, and Amir’s household isn’t conscious that he’s alive, solely that he’s ‘gone.’
“I’ve all the time mentioned that on account of GHF and IDF restrictions from UG S[olutions] personnel transferring past the focus camp fashion corals extending from the North entrance, that I used to be NOT, say once more, NOT in a position to confirm Amir’s demise,” he mentioned. “However I did in truth see Palestinians gunned down by IDF machine gun fireplace on the intersection of the SDS 3 exit and the army hall, north of SDS 3, the place an IDF Merkava tank was situated.”
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Abboud’s stepmother additionally later instructed the GHF that the boy hadn’t gone lacking till July 28, two months after Aguilar mentioned he had been killed.
Abboud ran away to be along with his start mom on July 28 amid a rift along with his stepmother’s household, whose custody he was put in following the demise of his father, per Palestinian regulation.
A GHF consultant concerned within the operation defined the search to search out Abboud grew to become not solely a matter essential to uncover what allegedly occurred on Might 28, however as a result of there was growing concern concerning threats posed by Hamas as traction picked up across the story.
The official defined that Hamas had a vested curiosity in ensuring this baby was not discovered, as it will discredit Aguilar’s story {that a} Palestinian boy had been gunned down by Israeli forces exterior a GHF website.
Finally, the GHF had been in a position to find the boy and his start mom by talking with native Palestinians and later, a member of the family who agreed to talk with the group earlier than connecting them with Najlaa.
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She then introduced Abboud to the GHF site in order that she, her son and 4 different male relations whose identities Fox Information Digital has agreed to hide, may very well be extracted from the Gaza Strip, after not less than one of many male relations acquired direct threats from the Hamas terrorist community.
In an interview shared with Fox Information Digital, Najlaa is seen sitting with Abboud and one other younger male, who was additionally set to be extracted with them, talking with GHF officers.
Within the video, which Fox Information Digital didn’t put up to guard a number of identities, Abboud refers to Najlaa as his “mama” and, in accordance with a translation of the feedback, he says he’s pleased to be together with her whereas smiling and sitting subsequent to her.
The identities of Abboud, his mom and his family members had been verified by GHF utilizing facial recognition software program that in contrast the pictures of the boy with these captured by Aguilar.
Facial recognition software program, biometric information and the demise certificates of Abboud’s father had been utilized by GHF to confirm the relations’ identities and relationships, and had been additionally shared with Fox Information Digital.
Abboud additionally introduced the shirt he was carrying within the footage taken by Aguilar, which is what the previous GHF contractor mentioned the boy was carrying when he was allegedly gunned down.
Abdul Rahim Muhammad Hamden, 8 years outdated, arrived with the T-shirt he was carrying on Might 28, 2025, within the footage taken by Anthony Aguilar at GHF Safe Distribution Website (SDS) 3 on Aug. 23, 2025. (Gaza Humanitarian Basis )
Aguilar didn’t reply to Fox Information Digital concerning the intact shirt, and mentioned, “The brand new photos should not Amir.”
When pressed on the place particularly he thought there have been discrepancies within the photographs of the boy, he mentioned, “Amir in my images had a scar on his left clavicle. The boy featured by GHF doesn’t. The Amir in my images from SDS 3, doesn’t have a scar on the fitting facet of his brow because the GHF’s images present.”
The GHF consultant confirmed that the boy’s scars had been in truth used to confirm his id.
“I imagine that may be a boy of comparable look,” Aguilar mentioned, noting he believes the result of the investigation “is a lie.”
The GHF spokesperson for the group, Chapin Fay, referred to as Aguilar’s story concerning the boy and his alleged homicide by the IDF “false” throughout a press convention earlier this month.
Aguilar instructed Fox Information Digital that the GHF statements made towards him throughout a July 29 press convention had been “libel and slanderous.”
Fay described him as a “disgruntled former worker” who was “terminated for trigger” after he engaged in “unstable conflicts with employees and erratic habits.”
In response to textual content messages shared with Fox Information Digital, Aguilar additionally didn’t deal with being faraway from his position properly, and threatened in a textual content trade with a GHF official that he “may very well be your greatest buddy, or your worst nightmare” in the event that they didn’t “put [him] again to work.”
Abdul Rahim Muhammad Hamden seen smiling on the GHF’s SDS 3 on Aug. 25, 2025 within the Gaza Strip. (Gaza Humanitarian Basis )
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David Panzer, counsel for UG Options, echoed this perception in a statement he gave on July 29 during which he mentioned, “Mr. Aguilar was terminated from his contract with UG Options on June 13, 2025, on account of poor efficiency, unstable conflicts with employees, and erratic habits.
“Since termination, Mr. Aguilar has unfold a false narrative to media retailers world wide, all on the similar time begging UG Options to rent him again,” Panzer added. “Mr. Aguilar’s actions within the final a number of weeks clarify that he’s making good on his threats to, in his personal phrases…be UG Options’s ‘worst nightmare’ in the event that they didn’t rent him again.”
Panzer mentioned Aguilar’s feedback “elevate[d] substantial questions of motive.”
