The family of a missing Palestinian boy are clinging to hope that he will be found alive, despite a retired US army soldier, who worked as a security subcontractor at the controversial Israeli- and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), claim that he saw Israeli forces shoot the emaciated child dead moments after he received aid.
Last week, retired US army soldier Anthony Aguilar, who worked as a security subcontractor at the GHF, told the UnXeptable podcast that he saw Israeli forces kill Abdulrahim on 28 May, whilst he was manning a GHF aid distribution point in southern Gaza.
"This young boy, Amir [Abdulrahim], walked up to me, barefoot and wearing tattered clothes that hung off his emaciated body," Aguilar said.
"He walked 12km to get there, and when he got there, he thanked us for the remnants and the small crumbs that he got.
"He set them down on the ground, because I was kneeling at this point, and he sets his food down, and he places his hands on my face, on the side of my face, on my cheeks, these frail, skeleton, emaciated hands - dirty - and he puts them on my face, and he kissed me.
