Ahead of the Senate vote on Bernie Sanders’ resolution to block a shipment of US arms transfers to Israel, Scott Paul, Director of Peace and Security at Oxfam America, said:
“We welcome Senator Sanders’ efforts to bring accountability to the Biden administration’s indefensible ongoing military support for the humanitarian nightmare unfolding in Gaza. President Biden has been unwilling to follow US law in order to save Palestinian lives, so we are depending on the Senate to do it with their vote on Wednesday.
“The Senate must vote to finally end arms transfers to Israel, as we see the crisis continue to escalate with warnings of imminent famine and entire communities being permanently erased in North Gaza governorate. Israel is blocking humanitarian aid, and is meanwhile using US weapons in attacks that have killed thousands of children, aid workers, and journalists, destroyed schools, hospitals, vital infrastructure for clean water and more, and displaced hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza, where there is nowhere safe.
“We are asking Senators to vote to meet the bare minimum – to uphold existing US law – to block deadly weapons from taking more lives and to send a message to Palestinians that they are not forgotten, and that there is still some measure of accountability for them in the US government.”