29 US senators urge Trump to immediately end Gaza blockade

WORLD, May 16 (YPA) – US Senate Democrats, led by Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) introduced a resolution urging the Trump administration to use “all diplomatic tools” to stop an Israeli blockade and allow aid to enter the Gaza Strip.

On Tuesday evening, Senator Welch took to the Senate Floor to highlight the unprecedented crisis unfolding in Gaza.

” Half a million Palestinians in Gaza are facing starvation, and that number is rising… All the while, these trucks that are filled with food and medicine-much of that aid provided by the United States and our allies-is right there across the border,” said Senator Welch on the Senate floor.

“We cannot have or sanction a government-intentional policy of starvation,” he stressed .

“I’m offering a resolution with my colleagues that makes a simple point: it notes simply that children are starving to death. They’re starving to death as we are here comfortably debating what we think are important issues. And it must be the effort of all of us to do all we can to bring this siege and this war to an immediate end,” he added.

In their resolution, the Senators express grave concern about the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza, including the imminent starvation of tens of thousands of children.

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