Annelle Sheline, a foreign affairs officer of the Department of State’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, said her job of advocating for human rights became impossible.
“A State Department official working on human rights issues in the Middle East resigned Wednesday in protest of U.S. support for Israel’s war in Gaza, the latest example of dissent among government personnel bursting into public view.
Annelle Sheline, 38, stepped down after a year as a foreign affairs officer in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, with nearly half that tenure marked by the war Israel launched in response to a devastating Hamas attack on Oct. 7.”
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