The footage was supplied by a former employee of UG Solutions, a firm charged with securing GHF distribution sites.

"I think you hit one," one soldier of fortune says to another following a loud burst of gunfire.

"Hell yeah, boy!" another exclaims.

In an apparent attempt to control the damage from the AP investigation, UG Solutions has distributed a pair of videos comprising over seven minutes of footage to the press. 

The newly released footage offers an unprecedented glimpse of the disturbing interactions between the starving population of Gaza and well-armed, clearly unprepared Americans hired to provide security for GHF's chaotic aid operations.

Filmed by one of its own employee, the recordings were seemingly distributed in an effort to show UG Solutions' agents have not fired live bullets on unarmed crowds of Palestinians. According to a UG Solutions statement, the videos "not only clarify what happened, but provide critical context, which contradicts that [sic] AP's reporting and shows that the accusations are unfounded."

However, a closer examination by The Grayzone demonstrates that the video was anything but exculpatory. 

In one video, a ragtag group of mercenaries can be seen firing what they called "warning shots" toward a crowd of Palestinian civilians, whom they acknowledged to be non-threatening, before radioing the notoriously trigger-happy Israeli military for backup.

Following a series of nearby gunshots, a UG Solutions mercenary can be heard radioing the IDF to inform them, "We are firing warning shots. Warning shots – that's from us," he says. Like all others heard in the video, he speaks in an American accent.

Seconds before the gunshots ring out, a UG Solutions agent can be seen in the lower left hand corner of the screen aiming his rifle in the direction of a crowd of aid seekers.