US State Department Falsified Report To Claim Israel ‘Not Blocking Gaza Aid’

US law says that weapons may not provided to governments blocking US-supplied humanitarian aid

The US State Department falsified a report to absolve Israel of blocking humanitarian aid from entering Gaza, disregarding the judgment of its own internal experts, the Guardian reported on 31 May.

According to Stacy Gilbert, a former senior US official who resigned this week, the report initially made clear that Israel was blocking US-provided humanitarian aid from reaching Gaza, based on the consensus of State Department experts consulted to draft the report.

Gilbert was one of the department’s subject matter experts who drafted the report mandated under National Security Memorandum 20 (NSM-20) and published on 10 May.

However, higher-ranking State Department officials edited the draft of the report, changing the conclusion to suggest that Israel was not blocking aid.

Gilbert resigned earlier this week from her post as senior civil-military adviser in the State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration in response to the change....

The change in the report’s conclusion assured that the US could continue to export weapons to Israel amid its ongoing assault on Gaza, which has killed over 35,000 people. Hundreds of thousands more are at risk of starvation.

Under a clause in the Foreign Assistance Act, the US is obliged to cut arms sales and security assistance to any country that has blocked the delivery of US aid.

Since 7 October, Israeli leaders have openly stated they wish to prevent food and other aid from entering Gaza, while the Israeli army has killed aid workers, police providing security to aid convoys, and Palestinian civilians seeking to collect food aid.

🔗SOURCE ➡️ The Cradle

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Stacy Gilbert... said she believed the report above “was wrong to conclude that Israel had not obstructed humanitarian assistance to Gaza,” according to officials who read her letter...

Gilbert became the sixth mid- or senior-level government staffer to resign in protest of US support for Israel.

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