The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a US Muslim civil rights and advocacy organisation, is calling on US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to resign after it was revealed he ignored assessments by US government agencies and officials indicating that Israel blocked US aid to Gaza earlier this year, Al Jazeera reports.

Investigative news outlet ProPublica reported that the US Agency for International Development (USAID) told the State Department in April that Israel was subjecting US humanitarian aid destined for Gaza to “arbitrary denial, restriction and impediments”.

In May, Blinken delivered a State Department report to Congress stating the opposite.

“When a senior American official lies to Congress in the middle of genocide so that the government can keep funding that genocide, he is deliberately flouting the law and prolonging the suffering of millions of innocent people who desperately need our government to stop funding their slaughter,” CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad said in a statement.