A Palestinian child who was said by a media-friendly “whistleblower” to have been murdered in cold blood by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in Gaza has turned up alive and well, living in hiding with his mother.

As Breitbart News reported in July, a military contractor named Tony Aguilar, who had been fired by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), turned against the group and was embraced by anti-Israel media.

Sen. Chris van Hollen (D-MD), a leading opponent of Israel in Congress, made Aguilar his star witness in accusing Israel of war crimes. Among those accusations : that IDF soldiers murdered a boy named “Amir.”

The claim was embraced by those seeking to discredit the GHF, which is backed by the U.S. and works with Israel to provide humanitarian aid in Gaza that is not stolen b

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