“I feel ashamed and guilty.” A former US intelligence officer resigns over the Gaza war

A former US military intelligence official published a letter on Monday in which he declared that his resignation in November was in fact due to "moral injury" caused by US support for Israel's war in Gaza and the harm done to the Palestinians.

Officer Harrison Mann, who worked at the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), said America's "unconditional support" for Israeli attacks on Gaza led to the killing of tens of thousands of innocent Palestinians and the starvation of others.

He added in the text of his resignation, which he published on his account on social media platforms, that he felt as if he was living in “another parallel world” when he saw the extent of his colleagues at the Defense Intelligence Agency’s support for Israel and its attacks on Gaza.

The American officer explained that he comes from a European-Jewish family, and that he worked for 13 years in the ranks of his country's army, while he was recently working as a "Middle East intelligence analyst."

He indicated that he felt "shame and guilt" over the scenes of "brutal killing and destruction" coming from Gaza over the past months, stressing that he could not have continued his work ignoring all of this.

In turn, the American press described Mann's move as "the first public resignation within the ranks of the American military and intelligence community."

Harrison Mann, an Army major, will be the first known US military intelligence official to resign over US support for Israel.

A military pilot in the US Air Forces Command previously set himself on fire in front of the Tel Aviv Embassy in Washington, DC, last February, in order to express his condemnation of the "genocide" carried out by Israel in the Gaza Strip.