In early 2024, USAID staff warned Biden officials that Northern Gaza had become an “Apocalyptic Wasteland,” with severe shortages of food and medicine. The memo, issued three months after Israel’s genocide in Gaza on October 7, 2023, drew on grim accounts from UN teams during humanitarian missions in January and February.

US Ambassador Jack Lew and Deputy Stephanie Hallett blocked the cable’s wider circulation, saying it lacked balance, according to former officials and documents reviewed by Reuters.

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