How a U.S. Contractor Brought Domino’s Pizza into Gaza While Civilians Starved
In a story that captures both the absurdity and moral collapse of international aid efforts, a U.S. military contractor managed to get Domino’s pizza delivered into Gaza, while humanitarian convoys filled with food and medicine remained barred from entry.
The whistleblower, Anthony Aguilar, a retired Green Beret working with UG Solutions (also known as Safe Reach Solutions), recounted how his team turned to an Israeli delivery app after aid distribution broke down. In May and June 2025, Aguilar’s group placed an order for 27 Domino’s pizzas through Wolt, Israel’s equivalent of DoorDash. The pizzas were picked up at the Gaza border and then transported into Gaza in an armored convoy to Distribution Site 1, where they were handed out to Palestinian workers.
Aguilar himself called the act “abhorrent.” He understood the grotesque symbolism: as civilians starved under siege conditions, an American contractor used a private delivery service to bring fast food across the border. In his words, it was a stark reminder of how deeply broken the system had become.
At the time of the pizza delivery, humanitarian aid convoys from the UN and other agencies were routinely stopped or delayed at the border. Thousands in Gaza faced famine conditions, with food and medical supplies piling up in trucks just kilometers away. Yet Domino’s, routed through Israel’s infrastructure, managed to cross with relative ease, an indictment of the priorities and failures of those in power.
The logistics only underline the absurdity. A multinational pizza chain had better access to Gaza than the international community tasked with preventing mass starvation. To get those pizzas inside, Aguilar’s team employed armored vehicle, hardware that aid groups have begged for but rarely received.
The incident encapsulates the deep contradictions of the crisis. On one hand, ordinary Gazans were being pushed to the brink of starvation; on the other, a U.S. contractor could exploit a consumer app to feed his own workers. The optics are devastating: pizzas wrapped in cardboard boxes rolling past starving families who were told no bread or beans could get through.
Aguilar’s choice of words, “abhorrent”, may be the understatement of the year. What happened was more than surreal. It was a snapshot of a humanitarian order so warped that luxuries could move where necessities could not.
For Gazans, it’s one more insult layered onto catastrophe: proof that the world has the capacity to deliver, but not the will. For those watching abroad, it is a reminder that aid systems have been subordinated to politics, leaving corporations to succeed where governments fail.
History may remember this moment not as a quirky footnote, but as a shameful symbol of a world that allowed genocide to unfold, while making room for Domino’s.