The Daily Populous Friday November 15th, 2024 morning edition
Authored by jpost.com and submitted by woshinoemi

Next week Sen. Bernie Sanders will bring to the Senate floor several joint Resolutions of Disapproval to block certain offensive weapons sales to Israel, the independent Vermont senator announced in a statement on Wednesday.

There is no longer any doubt that Netanyahu’s extremist government is in clear violation of US and international law as it wages a barbaric war against the Palestinian people in Gaza, his statement said.

“Out of a population of 2.2 million, over 43,000 Palestinians have been killed and 102,000 injured – 60% of whom are women, children, or elderly people. Israel has destroyed 70% of the housing in Gaza, the civilian infrastructure, the health care system, and hundreds of schools,” Sanders wrote. “It has bombed every one of Gaza’s 12 universities.”Sanders said as horrific as the last year has been, the current situation is even worse.

He accused Israel of continuing to restrict the flow of food and medicine and said tens of thousands of Palestinians face malnutrition and starvation. Transfer of humanitarian aid trucks into the Gaza strip through the “Kisufim” passage (credit: IDF SPOKESPERSON UNIT)

“The volume of aid reaching Gazans is lower than at any time in the last year. Blocking humanitarian aid violates the Foreign Assistance Act as well as the Geneva Convention,” he wrote.

This week, the State Department announced the United States would not be limiting military aid to Israel given that the IDF has taken steps to improve the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza. Washington warned Israel last month that military aid could be limited until progress was made. It did so based on Memorandum 20, which links such aid to humanitarian action.

“The United States cannot continue to be complicit in this war by supplying more military aid and weaponry to the Netanyahu government,” Sanders said. “Congress must act to block these arms sales.”

vincenty770 on November 14th, 2024 at 18:19 UTC »

Oh no, anyway

SerendipitouslySane on November 14th, 2024 at 18:16 UTC »

Introduced to a lame duck Congress, who are about to lose their majority in two months. This is purely a performative act with no intention of passing anything.

woshinoemi on November 14th, 2024 at 18:03 UTC »

Sen. Bernie Sanders accused Israel of restricting food and medicine access, warning of widespread Palestinian malnutrition, and announced plans to introduce resolutions next week to block certain U.S. offensive weapon sales to Israel.