He intended to present slides on “the reality of starving pregnant women” in Gaza based on UN and WHO data and discuss the International Humanitarian Law at a USAID conference.

The US State Department does oppose the notion that Israel blocks humanitarian aid entering Gaza.

Hence, the USAID official’s presentation was deemed to be in contradiction with the US State Department agenda.

Initially, the USAID requested him to emend or eliminate certain passages, which lastly ended by his representation being “Please remove this from the conference agenda,”

and leading to loss of livelihood.

“We can’t even whisper about that in a conference on that topic.”

The Intercept report