Over 800 American and European diplomats and officials have signed a "transatlantic" document in which they accuse Israel of "serious violations of international law" in the context of the military response against the Gaza Strip to the Hamas attack on 7 October and ask the respective governments a more decisive reaction.
Otherwise, they write in a text seen among others by the BBC, there is "the risk of becoming complicit in one of the most serious humanitarian catastrophes of the century": potentially leading to scenarios of "ethnic cleansing and genocide".
The document is signed by officials serving on behalf of the US government and those of 11 European countries, among which the BBC mentions the United Kingdom, Germany or France.
It was illustrated in copy to the British broadcaster by an American official with "over 25 years of experience" in the ranks of the national security services, who - protected by anonymity - denounced "the continuous refusal" of the leaders of the states involved to collect these alarms raised by "voices who know the (Middle Eastern) region and its dynamics".
"The reality here - he said deep-throatedly heard by the BBC - is that we are not just failing to prevent something, we are actively becoming complicit".
The text accuses Israel of "having no limits" in its military operations in Gaza: operations which have already caused "thousands of avoidable civilian deaths" and which, through "the deliberate blockade of aid", is "putting thousands of civilians facing at the risk of a slow death from starvation".
Not only that: the signatories also evoke, due to the policies of their respective governments, "the plausible risk of contributing" (through a sort of aiding and abetting) to "serious violations of international law, the law of war and even ethnic cleansing or genocide". .
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