More than 800 officials in the US, the UK, and
the EU released a public letter of dissent on Friday against their
government’s support of Israel in its war in Gaza.
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The letter is the first instance of officials
in allied nations across the Atlantic coming together to openly
criticize their governments over the war, say current and former officials who are organizing
or supporting the effort.
The officials say that it is their duty as
civil servants to help improve policy and to work in their nations’ interests
and that they are speaking up because they believe their governments
need to change direction on the war. The signers say they have raised concerns through
internal channels but have been ignored.
“Our governments’ current policies weaken
their moral standing and undermine their ability to stand up for freedom,
justice, and human rights globally,” the letter says, according to a copy
obtained Thursday by the New York Times. It adds that “there is a plausible
risk that our governments’ policies are contributing to grave violations of
international humanitarian law,
war crimes, and even
ethnic cleansing or
genocide.”
The document does not include the names of
signers because they fear reprisal, said one organizer, an official who has
worked in the State Department for more than two decades. But about 800 current
officials have approved the letter as it has quietly circulated among employees
at the national level in multiple countries, the official said.
The Israeli
Occupation Forces (IOF) launched a bombing and ground campaign in Gaza on
October 7, 2023. More than 27,000 people in Gaza have been killed and nearly
two million have been displaced since Israel’s offensive began, according to
the health ministry in Gaza and UN officials.
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