In a letter to Senate colleagues on Wednesday, Sanders said that the US cannot be “complicit in this humanitarian disaster.” The action would force an eventual vote to block the arms sales to Israel, though majority passage is incredibly unlikely.
“Much of this carnage in Gaza has been carried out with US-provided military equipment,” wrote Sanders, an independent senator from Vermont.
As the war grinds toward a second year, and with the outcome of President Joe Biden’s efforts to broker a ceasefire deal and hostage release uncertain, the resolutions from Sanders would seek to rein in the IDF’s ground offensive in Gaza.
The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says more than 40,000 people have been killed in the strip or are presumed dead since the start of the war, though the toll cannot be verified and does not differentiate between civilians and fighters. Israel says it has killed some 17,000 combatants in battle and another 1,000 terrorists inside Israel on October 7. READ MORE
