disclosure of new documents; America is an accomplice of the Zionists in the tragedy of Gaza

Afghan Voice Agency (AVA): Reuters news agency, citing leaked emails from the US State Department, reported that the United States was aware of the war crimes of the Zionist regime and the danger of a humanitarian crisis from the very first days of the Gaza war, but It has continued its armed support and opposed the ceasefire.

This news agency reported that at the same time that the Zionist regime began bombing Gaza last year and ordered the evacuation of more than a million Palestinians living in Gaza, a senior Pentagon official in a letter to the White House warned of a humanitarian disaster and war crimes.

According to this report, on October 13, 2023, Dana Stroll, the then US Assistant Secretary of Defense for West Asian Affairs, warned in a letter to the senior advisers of US President Joe Biden that the massive evacuation of people could lead to a humanitarian crisis. and lead to war crimes by the Zionist regime in violation of international laws. In this letter, he mentioned the evaluations of the International Red Cross, a report which he said was very shocking.

According to ISNA, the publication of this letter and other documents that were not published before shows the effort of the US government to maintain a balance between supporting the Zionist regime and dealing with the high number of civilian casualties in Gaza.

Reuters, which has obtained three unpublished documents from senior US government officials, reports that these letters show that the US State Department and the Pentagon are concerned about the possibility of the Zionist regime being condemned for violating international law and damaging US relations with countries. They knew Arabic.

These messages, which were sent from October 11 to 14, 2023, show that the American government has quickly concluded that it should change its position from full solidarity with the Zionists to supporting them, as well as sympathizing with the Palestinians and sending humanitarian aid to Gaza.

The United States claims that with its alleged pressure on the Zionist regime in the first days of the Gaza war, it was able to prevent a bigger disaster, but three senior American officials told Reuters that Washington's speed in dealing with the problems of civilians in Gaza was not enough.

Washington claims that it had asked the Zionists to delay their ground offensive to prepare for humanitarian aid, but US officials said the delay in the Israeli ground attack on Gaza was caused by operational problems in the occupation regime's armed forces, not American pressures.

Following the publication of these letters, "Chris Van Hollen", a Democratic member of the US Senate, said that these emails show that the painful consequences of the Gaza war were clear from the very first days, and experts had warned about the possibility of violating international norms, but the White House It ignored these legitimate concerns.

According to one of the letters sent on October 11, after the publication of reports about the Israeli air attack on hospitals, schools and mosques in Gaza, "Bill Russo", the senior public diplomacy official of the US Department of State, warned senior government officials that Washington By refusing to address this humanitarian crisis, it "loses its credibility among Arab-speaking audiences".

American diplomats in West Asia were monitoring Arab media reports that accused the Zionist regime of committing genocide and presented Washington as an accomplice of this regime. Bill Russo, who resigned from his post in March, warned in this letter that Arab-speaking countries in the region consider the United States to be complicit in these crimes and that America's silence in the face of these events will have a destructive effect.

According to reports, McGurk, Biden's senior adviser on West Asian affairs, responded to this letter and said that if the issue is that the United States requests a cease-fire, such a request will not be made, but the White House supports sending humanitarian aid to It is Gaza.

After the Zionist regime ordered a 24-hour evacuation of areas of Gaza, the United Nations and humanitarian organizations sounded the alarm. The International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva issued a statement saying that this order of the Zionist regime is not compatible with international humanitarian law, because it will cut off access to food, water and other basic needs of the residents of Gaza. Also, these emails show that the director of the Red Cross in the Middle East took a harsh tone in his phone call with Dana Stroll.

This prompted Stroll to write in an October 13 email to senior White House and Pentagon officials: "The Red Cross has privately warned that Israel is close to committing war crimes, but is not (yet) ready to say so publicly." . Their main position is that it is impossible to move a million civilians at this speed.

According to Reuters, in response to this email, a senior American official said that the displacement of one million people in this short period of time will undoubtedly lead to a humanitarian disaster, however, not only the Biden White House has expressed these concerns in its public statements. did not pay, but the Secretary of Defense of the United States also reiterated the military support of the United States to the occupying regime.

meanwhile Considering the siege of Gaza by the Zionists and the closing of the southern border of Gaza with Egypt, senior American officials admitted that the Palestinians living in Gaza had no safe way to leave this barrier.

Simultaneously with the publication of numerous reports warning of a humanitarian crisis in Gaza, the Zionist regime is pressuring the US State Department to accelerate the sale of weapons. On October 14, a senior official of the Israeli embassy in Washington asked the US State Department to expedite the delivery of 20,000 automatic weapons to the Israeli military.

The released emails show that Jessica Lewis, the US assistant secretary of state for political and military affairs, forwarded the occupation regime's embassy email to the US State Department's Office of Democracy, Labor and Human Rights, an office that reviews arms deals to prevent arms from being sent to parties that may use them to violate international law.

According to Reuters, this office in the US State Department raised several concerns regarding the commission of war crimes by the Zionist military and opposed the sending of 16 types of weapons to this regime.

However, almost all the warnings of this office were ignored and the shipments were given to the Zionist military. One of the concerns raised was the "Yamam" trench, which eventually killed more than 200 Palestinian civilians in the operation to free four Zionist prisoners in Gaza.