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Leaked docs claim that while Gaza starved, USAID and State’s refugees bureau concluded Israel deliberately prevented food and medicine from entering. Yet Blinken told Congress the opposite to keep arms flowing. Behind the scenes, Ambassador Jack Lew pushed Blinken to trust Israeli promises of aid facilitation, despite embassy staff warnings. Lew cited “humanitarian assistance,” and experts said arms sales should have been cut off—now Blinken’s words “will haunt us.”

@BrettMmurphy - Brett Murphy

Leaked docs: While Gaza starved, USAID and State's refugees bureau came to a legally explosive conclusion — Israel had deliberately prevented food & medicine from getting in But Blinken told congress the exact opposite, so the arms could keep flowing. https://www.propublica.org/article/gaza-palestine-israel-blocked-humanitarian-aid-blinken

@BrettMmurphy - Brett Murphy

Behind the scenes, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Jack Lew had pushed Blinken to trust the Israelis, who promised to help facilitate aid — even though Lew's own staff at the embassy had repeatedly told him that wasn't the case.

@BrettMmurphy - Brett Murphy

“No other nation has ever provided so much humanitarian assistance to their enemies,” Lew told them

@BrettMmurphy - Brett Murphy

If they had heeded their own experts on the ground and in Washington, the government would have been required to cut off arms sales. But they didn't. Blinken's statements to congress, one former official said, "will haunt us."