Bernie Sanders to Try to Freeze Aid to Israel

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) will force a vote on a measure that would threaten to freeze military aid to Israel.

The Senate will vote Tuesday on the resolution that would require the State Department to produce a review within 30 days on whether the Jewish state violated human rights during its war against Hamas in Gaza. If the agency were not to produce the report, aid to Israel must stop until the report materializes or the body separately allows the aid to continue, the New York Times reported.

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“There is growing concern among the American people and in Congress that what Israel is doing now is not a war against Hamas, but a war against the Palestinian people,” Sanders told the Times. “That with American military aid, children are starving to death, is to me—I mean, I just don’t know what adjectives I can use. It’s disgraceful. And I think I’m not the only one who feels that.”

The measure has little chance of passing in the Senate, according to the Times.

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