Two Democratic senators: Destruction in Gaza goes beyond bombs and bullets.
Chris Van Hollen of Maryland and Jeff Merkley of Oregon, both members of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, presented their findings after returning from a congressional trip to the Middle East in a report titled “Netanyahu’s Cabinet Is Carrying Out a Plan to Clean Up Gaza, and the US Is Complicit,” noting that the destruction goes beyond bombs and bullets.
The two reported after their trip to the Middle East that they had reached the “inevitable conclusion” that the Israeli regime is carrying out a systematic plan to destroy and ethnically cleanse Palestinians in Gaza to force local residents to leave the area, and that the US is complicit in this regime.
Hollen and Merkley said that a systematic campaign to suppress humanitarian aid is underway under the guise of “using food as a weapon of war.”
At a news conference on Thursday, Van Hollen said that Netanyahu and his cabinet are going beyond targeting Hamas and are imposing collective punishment on all the people of Gaza.
He added, “What they are doing and what we have witnessed shows that they are implementing such goals.”
The two US senators, who have visited Egypt, the occupied territories, the West Bank, and Jordan, said that the Israeli regime’s actions in Gaza are a deliberate strategy to ethnically cleanse the local population.
In their report, Hollen and Merkley called on the world to stop this process.
According to IRNA, Van Hollen had previously said in response to the Zionist regime’s prevention of the entry of trucks carrying humanitarian aid that the United States is an accomplice and partner of the Zionist regime in a clear violation of international law.
The US senator, criticizing Netanyahu and his cabinet, expressed his opposition to the regime’s actions in preventing the entry of aid trucks into Gaza, stating that they have kept two million civilians hungry.