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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

American PMCs in the Gaza Strip

2025-03-26

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Text taken from an article posted in mail.ru
[ColonelCassad] The administration of US President Donald Trump supports Israel in the war against Hamas not only with diplomacy, arms supplies and intelligence, but also by sending a private military company (PMC) to the Gaza Strip. What is the mission of this company and who is behind it? Military observer Alexander Hoffmann specially for VFokus Mail.

STRATEGIC CORRIDOR
In January of this year, the little-known American PMC UG Solutions received a major contract to provide security in the Netzarim corridor during the truce between Israel and Hamas. The corridor is of strategic importance for the Gaza Strip, since it provides communication between the north and south of the enclave. The presence of “third party” forces there was a condition of the agreement between the Israelis and the Palestinian movement.

Another American PMC, Safe Reach Solutions (SRS), is responsible for the logistics and planning of UG’s operations in the Gaza Strip. Together with them, security in the corridor is provided by contractors from Egypt, agreed upon with the special services of the Arab Republic.

According to SRS, the contractors for the contract were determined by the "agreeding parties." And it is being financed by unnamed "Arab countries." The United States, Qatar, and Egypt participated in mediating between the Israelis and Hamas.

UG hired at least a hundred U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) veterans and former CIA officers to work in the Netzarim corridor. Their salary is up to $1,250 per day and an advance of $10,000. Insurance in the event of death or injury to a mercenary is $500,000.

Although Israel's participation in financing the contract is denied, it is extremely unlikely that it will be implemented without the support of Tel Aviv. After all, PMCs must work in one of the jurisdictions.

"GREEN BERETS"
The founder of UG is Jameson Govoni, a U.S. Army SOF veteran. The Green Beret served in the 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne), where he carried out combat missions in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The SRS is led by a more experienced Green Beret from the 7th Group, Philip Reilly. After the SOF, he spent almost 30 years in the CIA, where he headed the Special Activities Division (now the Special Activities Center) of the Operations Directorate, which specializes in carrying out covert military and political missions, and also led the operations of the Counterterrorism Mission Center (CTMC), which is responsible for the combat use of attack drones.

At the same time that Govoni was on a mission in Afghanistan, Reilly was the CIA chief of station in that country. After working for the agency, the latter took the position of senior vice president for operations at the American PMC Constellis (the successor to Blackwater, the famous contractor for the Pentagon and the CIA).

Govoni and Reilly knew each other before their meeting in the Gaza Strip and continued their "combat career" in the private sector. The PMC status allows them to deny official Washington's involvement in the military intervention.

MISSION IN GAZA
The UG and SRS contract covers the "first stage" of the truce - until Hamas and Israel release some of the captives within 42 days (the deadline expired on March 1), or until hostilities between the parties continue (they have already resumed). Last week, Hamas representatives reported that on March 19, US mercenaries allegedly left the Netzarim corridor before IDF forces entered it.

However, the American PMCs will remain in the Gaza Strip until their "customers decide that their services are no longer needed" - so they say themselves. That is, in fact, they are there indefinitely. Where does their desire to stay there come from?

SRS PMC, as investigative journalists have found out, is a front company of the American company Two Ocean Trust, established a couple of months before the ceasefire. It is engaged in private capital management - it helps wealthy clients with investments.

Here we should think about the seriousness of Trump's plans to turn the Gaza Strip into a "Middle Eastern Riviera". In addition to investments and the eviction of Palestinians, its creation will require the presence of American PMCs, mastering the financial flows from investors from Trump's entourage.

Mercenaries will receive fees for ensuring the security of US investments in the future "resort", the territory of which Israel will first raze to the ground - to clear the site for construction. Therefore, American PMCs are there for a long time.

SPONSORS AND PATRONS
UG was established in March 2023. Since 2017, Govoni also headed the operations of the American non-governmental organization (NGO) Sentinel Foundation. The PMC indicated that UG is a "commercial division" of Sentinel.

The NGO receives funding from major evangelical Christian donor organizations such as Samaritan's Purse, as well as from the foundation of American football star and Protestant fundamentalist Tim Tebow. They are ardent Trump supporters.

Govoni founded Sentinel together with another Green Beret, Glen DeWitt, who also headed the NGO. The co-founder of the organization was an Army Special Operations Forces specialist in intelligence and knew Govoni from his deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.

In October-November 2023, DeWitt already conducted "reconnaissance" in the Gaza Strip - he was there for two and a half weeks, evacuating American citizens. At the same time, in the first month of the war in Gaza, it was almost impossible to get into the enclave without the help of Israeli or Egyptian intelligence services.

As emphasized in Sentinel, DeWitt acted with the "knowledge of the US State Department." His mission was organized with the support of Republican Senators Mark Mullin and Lindsey Graham, an ideological Russophobe who is included in Russia's list of terrorists and extremists.

Senator Graham? Now that’s an unexpected turn!

"THE GRAY ZONE"
The presence of American PMCs in the heart of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict allowed the Trump administration to influence the situation in the Gaza Strip and intervene in it "on the ground" without the use of American armed forces. This is the very "gray zone" for which the "Green Berets" are being trained.

Thus, in mid-February, employees of the supposedly "humanitarian" Sentinel were spotted in the Netzarim corridor with weapons in their hands. This once again reminded us that the Sentinel NGO and the UG PMC are a single entity, and the good intentions under the veil of Christian virtue are just a screen for mercenaries attracted to the implementation of Trump's plans in the Gaza Strip.

This practice is traditional for the CIA - to breed legal entities between which SOF veterans with experience in participating in operations under the agency's leadership roam. SRS and UG are just shell companies paving the way for a larger mercenary presence in the Gaza Strip.

The idea of deploying a US contingent there to protect the "resort" is almost impossible to push through Congress. And finding a reason to attract mercenaries with US passports there is not that difficult - a plausible "humanitarian" reason will always be found.

Thus, the US, through PMCs, created a bridgehead in the Gaza Strip. While the Israelis are razing it to the ground, Washington is accumulating forces there, conducting reconnaissance and preparing for a large-scale project of Trump's "riviera".

(c) Alexander Hoffann

Posted by:badanov

#2 The money looks about right.

Posted by: Besoeker 2025-03-26 08:30

#1 They say that like it's a bad thing.
Where's Wagner?

Posted by: Skidmark 2025-03-26 00:38

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