US Security Firm Hiring Around 100 Special Forces Veterans to Oversee Gaza’s Netzarim, with Daily Rates Starting at $1,110

Gaza (Quds News Network)- A US security firm is hiring nearly 100 US Special Forces veterans to oversee the Netzarim Corridor in Gaza during the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel, with daily rates starting at $1,100.

According to a company spokesperson and a recruitment email seen by Reuters, UG Solutions — a low-profile company founded in 2023 and based in Davidson, North Carolina — is offering a daily rate starting at $1,100 with a $10,000 advance to veterans it hires, the email said.

They will staff the checkpoint at a key intersection in Gaza’s interior, said the spokesperson, who confirmed the authenticity of the email.

Speaking on the condition of anonymity, the spokesperson said some people had been recruited and were already at the checkpoint, at the intersection of the Netzarim Corridor dividing northern and southern Gaza and Salah al-Din Street, which separates the east and west of the Palestinian enclave.

The spokesperson did not say how many contractors were already in Gaza.

UG Solutions’ role in the ceasefire deal has been reported, but the email disclosed previously unknown details including the aim of recruiting 96 veterans exclusively with US special operations forces backgrounds, the pay and the types of weapons they will carry.

Reuters reported on January 7 that Emirati officials had suggested the use of private contractors as part of a post-war peacekeeping force in Gaza, and that the idea had caused concern among Western nations.

The deployment of armed US contractors in Gaza is unprecedented and poses the risk that Americans could be drawn into fighting, Reuters said.

Among the risks facing the Americans are gunfights with resistance fighters or Palestinians angry over Washington’s support for Israel’s Gaza offensive.

“Of course, there is a threat they will face,” said Avi Melamed, a former Israeli intelligence official.

The document said the contractors will be armed with M4 rifles, which are used by the Israeli and US militaries, and Glock pistols.

The rules of engagement governing when UG Solutions personnel can open fire have been finalized, the spokesperson said, but he declined to disclose them.

“We have the right to defend ourselves,” he said. He declined to discuss how the company won the contract.

Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel on Tuesday told reporters, without naming UG Solutions or the United States, that Israel had demanded that the deal include the use of a private security firm, working with “an Egyptian security company or forces” to help maintain security and humanitarian aid flows in Gaza.

But, she said, it remained to be seen if the arrangement “actually works.”

An Egyptian source said the Egyptians at the checkpoint were special forces trained in recent months including on counter-terrorism.

A member of the Egyptian-Qatari committee gestures while inspecting vehicles carrying Palestinians, displaced to the south by Israel during the war, as they return to their homes in northern Gaza amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, near Gaza City, January 27, 2025. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled

A Palestinian official close to the talks confirmed US contractors would also be at the checkpoint. However, the official said the US contractors would be deployed away from residents passing through and they must not deal with the local population.

The UG Solutions email said its primary mission was “internal vehicle checkpoint management and vehicle inspection.”

“We’re only focused on vehicles,” said the spokesperson.

The UG Solutions’ hires will work with US-based Safe Reach Solutions, which does logistics and planning, according to the spokesperson and another source familiar with the contract.

Each hire will be provided with $500,000 in accidental death and dismemberment insurance, and the daily rate for former US special forces medics rises to $1,250, the email said.

A separate source familiar with the deal said Israel and unnamed “Arab countries” that worked on the agreement are funding the consortium. The US government had no direct involvement in the decision to include a security company in the ceasefire deal or in the awarding of the contract, the source said.

Several people in the private security industry told Reuters that they had not heard of UG Solutions.

The only company officially listed in Virginia state incorporation records is Jameson Govani. He is described as a US Special Forces veteran.

A US private security business source briefed on the UG Solutions contract, speaking on condition of anonymity, said it seemed hazardous to deploy Americans in Gaza and that he feared combat could break out “really fast.”

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