[1] A group of staff members resigned amidst anger in the country over Biden's support for Israel, despite rising casualties in the Gaza Strip as Israeli forces continue to commit genocide against Palestinians in the territory.
[2] In a joint statement entitled "Service in Dissent", the resigned officials wrote that "America's diplomatic cover for, and continuous flow of arms to, Israel has ensured our undeniable complicity in the killings and forced starvation of a besieged Palestinian population in Gaza.
[3] The officials included Lily Greenberg Call, Harrison Mann, Hala Rharrit, Maryam Hassanein, Mohammed Abu Hashem, Riley Livermore, Alexander Smith, Stacy Gilbert, Anna Del Castillo, Annelle Sheline, Tariq Habash, Josh Paul, and Andrew Miller.
[8] Lily Greenberg Call, Special Assistant to the U.S. Department of the Interior's Chief of Staff, was the first Jewish political appointee to resign in protest at United States support for Israel in the Gaza war.
[2] In May 2024, U.S. Army officer Harrison Mann made public that he had left the military and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) the previous November because of the "moral injury" caused by United States support for Israel in the Israel–Hamas war and the damage done to the Palestinians.
[12][10] "The policy that has never been far from my mind for the past six months is the nearly unqualified support for the government of Israel, which has enabled and empowered the killing and starvation of tens of thousands of innocent Palestinians," he wrote.
[13] Hala Rharrit, a U.S. diplomat and veteran Foreign Service officer and the State Department's spokeswoman for the Middle East and North Africa, resigned on April 25, 2024 in opposition to the U.S. policy in Gaza.
"[17] Stacy Gilbert, a State Department official with over 20 years of experience in refugee crises, resigned in May 2024 following the release of a joint State-DOD report to Congress that concluded that Israel was not blocking humanitarian assistance.
Gilbert, the Senior Civil-Military Advisor in the State Department's refugee bureau, had been one of the subject matter experts drafting the report the White House requested (National Security Memorandum #20, "NSM-20").
[10][24] Tariq Habash, a political appointee to the Ministry of Education, resigned on January 4, 2024 in protest of Biden's handling of the Gaza war,[8][25] while saying that U.S. government "does not value all human life equally".
[27] "I cannot stay silent as this administration turns a blind eye to the atrocities committed against innocent Palestinian lives, in what leading human rights experts have called a genocidal campaign by the Israeli government."