A U.S. Army officer assigned to the Defense Intelligence Agency has resigned from his post in protest of U.S. support for Israel in the war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
The Army confirmed to Fox News that Maj. Harrison Mann submitted his resignation in November.
“The policy that has stuck with me for the past six months is the near-unconditional support for the Israeli government that enabled and empowered the murder and starvation of tens of thousands of innocent Palestinians,” Mann said. wrote on his LinkedIn page. recently.
“This week it is clear that some of you will be asked to provide direct or indirect support to Israeli forces operating in Rafah and other parts of Gaza, and we hope you will too. I’m sharing it now in hopes that you will find that you are not alone, you have not lost your voice, and you are not powerless,” Mann continued in the post.
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Army officer Maj. Harrison Mann resigned from his commission Monday in protest of U.S. support for Israel. (Harrison Mann/LinkedIn)
Mann was commissioned into the Army in 2011 as an infantry officer and is currently assigned to the Defense Intelligence Agency’s Bolling Air Force Base as a foreign area officer, according to a statement from the U.S. Army Public Affairs Office.
The Army said Mann was deployed to Tunisia, Bahrain, Kuwait and South Korea during his active duty.
“Maj. Harrison Mann actually requested an unconditional resignation from duty on November 29, 2023. An unconditional resignation is a voluntary action by an officer to retire, and any It can also be requested for any reason,” the statement said. Read from U.S. Army Public Relations.
Mann’s request to resign, first reported by the New York Times, was approved in January and will take effect on June 3.
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Mann’s resignation will be announced Friday by the U.S. State Department criticized Israel the use of U.S.-supplied weapons in a manner that could be “inconsistent” with “civilian harm mitigation” in the Gaza war;
“Israel has had to face extraordinary military challenges,” the report, sent to Congress on Friday and obtained by FOX News Digital, said. “They are using people as human shields.”
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The report added: “It is often difficult to determine the facts on the ground in an active conflict zone of this nature and the presence of legitimate military targets throughout Gaza.”
According to the Palestinian Authority, around 35,000 Palestinians, including many women and children, have been killed in the conflict.
Fox News Digital’s Brie Stimson contributed to this report.
