Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that Israel “should not receive another nickel in U.S. military aid” because it violates international law. said.
“I think any objective observer knows that Israel is breaking international law by importing American law,” Sanders said. should not be accepted.”
He went on to say: “Look, the facts are crystal clear: Hamas is a horrible, horrible terrorist organization that started this war, but what Israel has done over the last seven months is not just to wage war against Hamas, but to wage war against the Palestinian people as a whole. So we’re talking about 35,000 Palestinians killed, 77,000 injured, two-thirds of them women. And it’s not just about being a child. It’s not in a way that gives us a civilized society to the same extent that war is civilized. We’re talking about 60 houses in Gaza. % destroyed, only water, raw sewage now flowing into the roads, no electricity. You are talking about the systematic destruction of the health system there. All the universities in Gaza now. is being bombed.”
Sanders added: “According to the humanitarian community, this is the scariest thing at the moment. We’re looking at the possibility of hundreds of thousands of children facing starvation. The Foreign Assistance Act is very clear. Clause 6201 states that any country that blocks U.S. humanitarian aid is breaking the law and should not continue to receive military aid from the United States. That is exactly what Israel did.
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