British contractor David McIntosh who worked in Gaza with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) from August-October 2025, became a whistleblower following his experience there, in which he documented war crimes committed by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) against innocent Palestinians seeking food. McIntosh was a veteran commando of British special forces with significant combat experience.
In its lengthy April 13 report of McIntosh’s account, Drop Site News, notes that the only other whistleblower to emerge before McIntosh was retired Special Forces officer Anthony Aguilar, who worked with security contractor UG solutions. McIntosh , who worked as a logistics manager for GHF logistics partner Safe Research Solutions (SRS), compiled both documentation and footage as evidence of IDF crimes. When asked why he waited five months after his return from Gaza to publicly air his charges, he said he had hoped for a chance to return to Gaza and gather more information, but was unable to do so.
In the three months of his deployment, he was largely assigned to GHF’s Site 4, at which he documented the IDF’s “regular and indiscriminate” killing of unarmed Palestinian civilians. Based on eyewitness reports from fellow contractors, he reported on the IDF’s murder of a 12-year-old boy, for no reason. “There was no reason [why] they shot him,” he wrote. He was just standing, laughing and joking. He was left to bleed out.”
