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Congressional aides told HuffPost a May 8 letter from Israel's ambassador was stunning, embarrassing and verging on offensive.
"President Biden has the blood of innocent people on his hands," said Lily Greenberg Call in her resignation letter to the U.S. Department of the Interior.
The International Criminal Court was also called the West's "puppet body" by Russia after issuing an arrest warrant for President Vladimir Putin over Ukraine.
The Nakba, Arabic for catastrophe, refers to the 700,000 Palestinians who fled or were driven out of what is now Israel.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Aid workers are struggling to distribute dwindling food to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians displaced by Israel's assault on Gaza's southernmost city.
Maj. Harrison Mann's letter criticized the U.S. for still supporting Israel, "which has enabled and empowered the killing and starvation" of Palestinians.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken has delivered some of the Biden administrations strongest public criticism yet of Israels conduct of the war in Gaza.
The United Nations has warned that the planned full-scale Rafah invasion would further cripple humanitarian operations and cause a surge in civilian deaths.
The president's report "ignores the big question" of whether the U.S. government thinks Israel has violated international humanitarian law, a U.S. official told HuffPost.
Media reports and humanitarians suggest Israel has started its ground invasion in the southernmost city in Gaza.
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