美国国际开发署曾警告拜登政府，加沙北部已成“人间炼狱”，电报显示 —— 2024年初，美国国际开发署（USAID）工作人员起草了一份电报，警告拜登政府高级官员，称加沙北部已沦为“人间炼狱”，面临严重的食品和医疗物资短缺。 这份内部电报于2023年10月7日三个月后发出，详细描述了联合国工作人员在1月和2月进行的两阶段人道主义实况调查任务中观察到的景象。 工作人员报告称，他们在道路上发现了人类股骨和其他骨骼，车内发现了遗体，并指出“人道主义需求极其匮乏，尤其是在食品和安全饮用水方面”。 然而，据路透社采访的四位前官员和查阅的文件显示，美国驻以色列大使杰克·卢及其副手斯蒂芬妮·哈利特阻止了这份电报在美国政府内部的广泛传播，他们认为电报内容不够客观。 USAID warned Biden administration that northern Gaza was an 'apocalyptic wasteland,' cable shows —— In early 2024, US Agency for International Development staff drafted a warning for senior officials in Joe Biden’s administration, stating that northern Gaza had become an “apocalyptic wasteland” facing severe shortages of food and medical supplies. The internal message, sent three months after the 7 October 2023, detailed the scenes observed by UN staff during a two-part humanitarian fact-finding mission in January and February. The staff reported encountering a human femur and other bones on the roads, dead bodies left in cars, and “catastrophic human needs, particularly for food and safe drinking water.” However, the US ambassador to Israel, Jack Lew, and his deputy, Stephanie Hallett, prevented the cable from being distributed more widely within the US government, believing it lacked balance, according to interviews with four former officials and documents reviewed by Reuters.