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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Julian Borger in Washington

State department official’s resignation highlights rifts over US Gaza policy

Relatives of a Palestinian child, Yasmeen Abu Rkab, two, who died in Israeli attacks, mourn as they receive her body from the morgue of Al-Aqsa hospital in Gaza on Wednesday.
Relatives of a Yasmeen Abu Rkab, aged two, who died in Israeli attacks, receive her body from the morgue of Al-Aqsa hospital in Gaza on Wednesday. Photograph: APAImages/Rex/Shutterstock

A human rights official has resigned from the US state department over Gaza saying the Biden administration is flouting US law by continuing to arm Israel, and is hushing up evidence that the US had seen on Israeli human rights abuses.

Annelle Sheline, said she had hoped to have an influence on policy by staying at her post in the Near Eastern section of the bureau of democracy, human rights and labor, taking part in discussions, signing dissent cables and raising her concerns with her supervisor. But she had lost confidence she could do anything that would affect the flow of US arms to Israel.

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