Ending the Israel Exemption

First we saw the siege of Gaza as publicly declared official Israeli government policy and now a famine is happening in Gaza. Shockingly, the State Department has not yet found that Israel is blocking aid to Palestinians in a way that would trigger a pause on US military aid to Israel.

The State Department continued on The Israel Exemption from the Leahy Laws when they did not assess that the Israeli government is blocking humanitarian aid from reaching Gaza, even though a total siege is stated Israeli policy, with an Israeli minister declaring in October that they were going to cut off food, water, medicine, and electricity to all civilians in Gaza. So even though that has been the official stated policy of the Israeli government and Secretary Blinken recognized that 100% of the population of Gaza is facing severe acute food insecurity, with the UN and World Food Program warning of a mass famine and Human Rights Watch declaring that the Israeli government is using starvation as a method of warfare in the Gaza Strip, the State Department still refuses to acknowledge the obvious reality that the Israeli government is trying to starve the population of Gaza, and that is a clear violation of the Foreign Assistance Act. That law says that the United States government is prohibited from funding any foreign government engaged in gross violations of human rights like restricting food, water, and medicine.

President Biden needs to;

Direct the State Department to determine if the stated Israeli policy of a siege on Gaza by cutting off food, water, electricity, and medicine to the entire civilian population violated any US or international laws like the Foreign Assistance Act.

Also, the ICC began seeking arrest warrants for members of Hamas and Israeli leadership for war crimes.

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