US State Department staff are preparing urgent dissent cables over Washington's support for Israel's relentless bombing campaign of Gaza, Middle East Eye can reveal.

Several sources told MEE that tensions are at fever-pitch within the department, where officials are growing increasingly frustrated with the US President Joe Biden administration's open backing of what human rights activists are calling war crimes against Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip.

A draft of one cable, diplomats write that Hamas's attack on Israel cannot be used as a justification for Israel to carry out the indiscriminate killing of innocent people in Gaza.

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State Department officials prepare dissent cables in opposition to Gaza assault