"Two Democratic senators claim they have reached the inescapable conclusion that Israel is acting on a systematic plan to destroy and ethnically cleanse Palestinians from Gaza to force locals to leave, and they say the US is complicit. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland and Jeff Merkley of Oregon, both members of the Senate foreign relations committee, released their findings in a report on Thursday after returning from a congressional delegation to the Middle East where, they note, the destruction goes beyond bombs and bullets."
"They say they also found a systematic campaign to strangle humanitarian aid, which they call using food as a weapon of war. The Netanyahu government has gone far beyond targeting Hamas to imposing collective punishment on all the people of Gaza, Van Hollen said at a Thursday press conference. What they're doing, and what we witnessed, is putting those goals into action."
"At least one hundred people have died from famine in Gaza, the United Nations said this week, citing the Gaza health ministry. Relatives of one-and-a-half-year-old Palestinian Ayman Muhammad Abd al-Ghafur, who died from severe malnutrition, oxygen deprivation and muscle wasting, mourn as the body is taken from Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza, on Tuesday. Photograph: Abdallah Fs Alattar/Anadolu via Getty Images"
Two U.S. senators concluded Israel is implementing a systematic plan to destroy and ethnically cleanse Palestinians from Gaza and asserted U.S. complicity. The senators visited Egypt, Israel, the occupied West Bank and Jordan and released a report after a congressional delegation to the region. They observed Rafah reduced to rubble and documented a campaign to strangle humanitarian aid, describing the withholding of food as a weapon of war. The report states Israel's actions go beyond targeting Hamas and amount to collective punishment intended to force civilians to leave. The United Nations cited at least one hundred famine deaths in Gaza, and a one-and-a-half-year-old child died from severe malnutrition and oxygen deprivation.
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