Bernie Sanders demaands report on Israel’s human rights practices

https://reuters.com/world/us-senator-tries-force-debate-humanita…

New Bernie Sanders resolution:

The State Department must submit a report on Israel’s human rights practices within 30 days, “or all security assistance…is cut off. After the report is received, Congress may…condition, reduce, or terminate the security assistance in question.”

Sanders, an independent who caucuses with Democrats, sought to force debate under a provision in U.S. foreign assistance law prohibiting security assistance to any government that "engages in a consistent pattern of gross violations of internationally recognized human rights" and lets Congress vote to demand a report on a country's human rights practices.

Sanders' resolution acknowledged Israel's right to respond to the Oct. 7 attack on Israelis by Islamist Hamas militants. However, he deplored the extent of the suffering in Gaza.

"This is a humanitarian cataclysm, and it is being done with American bombs and money. We need to face up to that fact – and then we need to end our complicity in those actions," Sanders said in a statement.

Unrelenting Israeli bombardment has laid much of the Gaza strip to waste, with nearly 19,000 people confirmed dead, according to Palestinian health officials.