WASHINGTON, (PIC)
The Independent US Senator Bernie Sanders called for an end to the collusion between the US administration and the Israeli government in the genocide war against the Palestinian people.
In a speech to members of the Senate on Wednesday, Sanders announced that he will file a draft resolution to the Congress next week for a vote to stop a US-arms deal with Israel worth $20 billion.
Despite the emergence of voices in the Congress condemning the war on Gaza, the majority of US lawmakers from both the Democratic and Republican parties support supplying Israel with weapons and money, and therefore the chance of passing any draft resolution that contradicts this policy seems nonexistent.
Sanders stressed that the massacre in Gaza is being carried out with US arms, denouncing his country’s complicity in this humanitarian catastrophe.
He pointed out that providing more US weapons to continue the disastrous war in Gaza violates the international law.
Sanders explained that 60% of the victims of the ongoing Israeli war on Gaza for about a year now are women and children, and 90% of the population has been displaced due to the war.
The independent US senator has repeatedly called for stopping the military and financial support for Israel and has been accusing the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of carrying out ethnic cleansing in the Gaza Strip.
Sanders noted that the Biden Administration approved a series of arms sales to Israel in mid August that totaled more than $20 billion, and included several systems in five separate packages.
Since October 7, 2023, the Israeli occupation army has been waging a bloody war of extermination on the Gaza Strip, which has so far resulted in more than 136,000 martyrs and wounded, the majority of whom are children and women.
