US State Department official resigns, says US report on #Gaza inaccurate
A U.S. State Department official who quit this week said on Thursday her resignation was precipitated by an administration report to #Congress that she said falsely stated #Israel was not blocking #humanitarian aid to Gaza, prompting her to resign in protest of President Joe #Biden's Israel policy.
Stacy Gilbert, who served in the State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration, was a subject matter expert working on the report.
"There is so clearly a right and wrong, and what is in that report is wrong," Gilbert said in an interview.
#Submission from #CJPME to MP Matthew Green’s #Nakba Bill #Initiative, authored by Lena El-Malak, PhD, LLM; Nadia Abu-Zahra, PhD; Michael Bueckert, PhD; and Alex Paterson, MA.
Despite the announcement of the suspension of Turkish trade with Israel, a large number of ships continue to import and export daily between Israeli and Turkish ports.
'Do we know what type of #armaments we [#UK] sell to #Israel? Do we know which companies are selling #arms and the cost of exports? Or is all this an official secret?
Most of this information is not secret. Here is an extract from a Commons library briefing paper on arms exports to Israel.'
Ex-Foreign Office and Ministry of Defence official #AliciaKearns, chair of the House of Commons [#SelectCommitteeOnForeignAffairs] said at a Tory fundraiser that legal advice would mean the UK has to cease all #ArmsSales to Israel without delay
Minister libels academics as “Hamas” for speaking out against Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people, loses, and the UK taxpayer foots the bill.