US President Joe Biden’s approach to the ongoing violence in Israel and Palestine is fueling mounting tensions at the US government agency most involved in foreign policy — the State Department — Huffpost reports.

Officials told HuffPost that Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his most senior advisers are overlooking widespread internal frustration.

Some department staff said they feel as if Blinken and his team are uninterested in their own experts’ advice as they focus on supporting Israel’s expanding operation in Gaza, the report added.

“There’s basically a mutiny brewing within State at all levels,” one State Department official is quoted as saying by Huffpost.

Two officials told HuffPost that diplomats are preparing what’s called a “dissent cable,” a document criticising American policy that goes to the agency’s leaders through a protected internal channel.

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