Over 800 serving officials in the US and Europe have released a statement expressing apprehension that their governments' policies concerning the Israel-Gaza conflict could amount to "grave violations of international law." The signatories comprise civil servants from the US, the EU, and 11 European countries, including the UK, France, and Germany. A US government official with more than 25 years of national security experience said, "What's really different here is we're not failing to prevent something, we're actively complicit. That is fundamentally different from any other situation I can recall."