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- GHF has come under international scrutiny because of the hundreds of Palestinians that have been killed while seeking assistance at its distribution sites
- Edward Ahmed Mitchell: Putting the Infidels biker club in charge of delivering humanitarian aid in Gaza is like putting the Ku Klux Klan in charge of delivering humanitarian aid in Sudan
LONDON: Members of an anti-Islamic US biker gang are running security at contentious Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid sites in the besieged enclave.
Infidels Motorcycle Club members are working for UG Solutions, a private contractor that provides security for GHF in Gaza, a BBC report has revealed.
GHF has come under international scrutiny because of the hundreds of Palestinians that have been killed while seeking assistance at its distribution sites
The biker gang Infidels MC was set up by US military veterans of the Iraq war in 2006 and members comport themselves as latter-day crusaders.
“Putting the Infidels biker club in charge of delivering humanitarian aid in Gaza is like putting the Ku Klux Klan in charge of delivering humanitarian aid in Sudan. It makes no sense whatsoever,” said Edward Ahmed Mitchell, deputy director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a leading Muslim civil rights organization in the US.
“It’s bound to lead to violence, and that’s exactly what we’ve seen happen in Gaza.”
The motorbike gang’s leader, Johnny “Taz” Mulford, is a former sergeant in the US Army and is now the “country team leader” running UG Solutions’ contract in Gaza.
Social media posts show that in May, just two weeks before traveling to Gaza, Mulford sought to recruit US military veterans who follow him on Facebook, inviting anyone who “can still shoot, move and communicate” to apply.
At least 40 of about 320 people hired to work for UG Solutions in Gaza were recruited from Infidels MC, according to an estimate by a former contractor.
UG Solutions is paying each contractor $980 per day, including expenses, rising to $1,580 per day for team leaders at GHF’s “safe distribution sites.”
One leader of a team in Gaza overseeing site security, Josh Miller, posted a photo of a group of contractors in Gaza with a banner reading “Make Gaza Great Again.”
Motorbike gang leader Mulford has the date 1095 tattooed across his chest. He has a crusader cross tattooed on his right forearm and another on his left upper arm along with the word “Infidels.”
“When you see anti-Muslim bigots today celebrating 1095, celebrating the crusades, they are celebrating the wholesale massacre of Muslims — the erasure of Muslims and Jews from the holy city of Jerusalem,” said Ahmed Mitchell from the US Muslim civil rights organization CAIR.
He said the gang bore all the hallmarks of anti-Muslim hate groups which for decades have used the name “Infidels.”
Scenes of chaos and pandemonium are commonplace at GHF distribution sites in Gaza. Up to the start of this month, 1,135 children, women and men have been killed near the sites while seeking food, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
The UN has said most of the killings appear to have been carried out by Israeli security forces. Incidents where civilians were harmed while seeking aid are “under review by the competent authorities in the IDF,” the Israeli military said.
UGS has denied allegations that its security contractors also fired on civilians and that it put people seeking food in danger due to incompetent leadership. However, the company has also tellingly admitted that warning shots have been used to disperse crowds.