Seventeen Democratic senators, led by Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Tim Kaine (D-Va.) and Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), have warned the State Department that Israeli assurances of compliance with the February memorandum were neither credible nor reliable.
Congress should demand that the administration provide a full and immediate public briefing detailing how the State Department’s decision was reached. It is not too late. This initial decision was only preliminary. Each day since has further proven that the famine is primarily due to Israel’s blockade, and it will almost certainly continue until the May 8 determination deadline.
Last Monday, the U.S. State Department deemed Israel in compliance with President Biden’s landmark national security memorandum issued in February. That memorandum required that recipients of U.S. weapons must demonstrate compliance with international law, and that they not interfere with or block the delivery of humanitarian aid.
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Can we as the people of the United States somehow challenge that?
