Gaza internal checkpoint to be staffed by US private armed contractors [View all]

What could possibly go wrong?

I've seen this movie.

Deployment of special forces veterans is unprecedented and poses risk that Americans could be drawn into fighting.
In 2007, contractors for the now defunct Blackwater firm shot dead 14 civilians in Baghdad’s Al Nisour Square, igniting a diplomatic crisis and outraging Iraqis. Four Blackwater personnel were convicted in a US court and pardoned by Trump in his first term. Insurgents in Fallujah, Iraq, in 2004 killed four Americans working for Blackwater and hung two of their bodies from a bridge, prompting a massive US military response.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/30/us-private-armed-contractors-gaza-checkpoint