Gaza’s Blackwater: Despite Denials, US Boots Will Be on the Ground in Gaza

By Robert Inlakesh*
Nov 21, 2025

In Gaza, there are many parallels to the disastrous invasion of Iraq and the use of Blackwater PMCs there. Except, this time, the regime change war has the UNSC’s stamp of approval.

With the passing of United Nations Security Council Resolution 2803, the United States is preparing to take over the Gaza Strip and lead an international invasion force. While Trump administration officials claim there will be no boots on the ground, this has now been revealed as a lie.

The latest scheme, which has received the backing of the UNSC, seeks to deploy an “International Stabilization Force” (ISF) to the Gaza Strip, imposing a so-called “Board of Peace” (BoP) that renders Gaza under the de facto rule of the United States.

Previously, US Vice President JD Vance had stressed that “no US boots on the ground in Gaza” was the position of the Trump administration. Yet, the United States has already deployed hundreds of soldiers to Israel and will be the leader of the planned ISF.

The task set forth for this ISF is to violently remove Hamas and the other Palestinian resistance groups, demilitarizing the Gaza Strip in a regime change war of aggression that is aimed at completing the goals that Israel failed to accomplish in two years of an all out genocidal campaign.

As leader of the ISF, it may be the case that US soldiers will not be the ones directly carrying out missions against the Palestinian forces, yet they will be there for other purposes and are stationed on the ground. While Washington can make semantic arguments that if their soldiers are not carrying out raids and ambushes, they are not “on the ground”, this is simply misleading framing.

The US forces will be on the ground and are currently on the ground, leading what is known as the Civil-Military Coordination Center (CMCC) that is based next to Gaza, in Israeli-controlled territory. They do reconnaissance and monitor the ceasefire, meaning they are overseeing Israel’s civilian massacres and constant demolition work that violates the agreement on a daily basis.

Yet, the US boots on the ground rabbit hole goes much deeper. As recently revealed by Drop Site News, the US-based private firm called UG Solutions is currently undergoing a new recruitment drive, employing ex-American personnel for brand new roles inside Gaza. UG Solutions was responsible for employing the Private Military Contractors (PMCs) that worked for the now-defunct Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).

After Israel had cut off all aid from entering Gaza for three months, leading to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) to declare a famine in areas of the territory, the US-Israeli-led solution was to introduce a privatized aid scheme that was the GHF. Instead of internationally credited humanitarian aid organizations managing the distribution, it triggered happy US Special Forces veterans instead.

The result was that starving civilians were lured into these so-called aid sites, which Palestinians would later dub “death traps”, and were gunned down by Israeli soldiers and also American PMCs. In total, around 2,600 civilians were killed near and inside the GHF sites, while 19,000 others were wounded.

The ceasefire agreement secured the collapse of the GHF, yet the Israelis have since pushed for its revival. At least two different proposals were set forth for bringing this death trap scheme back, one which would place GHF sites inside the Israeli-controlled portion of Gaza, behind what is known as the “Yellow Line”. The other was to place these sites on the Yellow Line itself, which the Israelis are routinely violating and killing any civilian who even comes within a few hundred meters of it.

According to the Drop Site News’ report, the UG Solutions PMCs could be tasked not only with aid distribution-related missions, but also with directly aiding the ISF. In other words, they will be used to back the international invasion force that will be tasked with slaughtering Palestinians in order to try and achieve Gaza’s disarmament.

Who will foot the bill for this “Board of Peace”, the “ISF,” and the new PMC missions? The US taxpayer. This scheme seeks to remove the economic and military burden from the Israeli armed forces and government, shifting that onto the Western taxpayer and foreign militants.

If all this goes ahead, it is already showing many parallels to the disastrous invasion of Iraq and the use of Blackwater PMCs there. Except this time, the regime change war has the UNSC’s stamp of approval.

(The Palestine Chronicle)

*Robert Inlakesh is a journalist, writer, and documentary filmmaker. He focuses on the Middle East, specializing in Palestine. He contributed this article to The Palestine Chronicle.
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