WASHINGTON May 04. 2024 (Saba) - US Democratic lawmakers said in a letter to President Joe Biden that they believe there is sufficient evidence to prove that Israel violated US law by restricting the flow of humanitarian aid to the besieged Gaza Strip.
In the letter, signed by 86 House Democrats, the lawmakers pointed to Israel's restrictions on aid and its failure to respond to repeated demands to open enough sea and land routes to deliver aid to the population of the Gaza Strip, to respect international humanitarian law, and to allow the free flow of aid.
There are reports that Israel has not allowed in enough food to avoid famine, and has imposed a system of inspections and arbitrary restrictions on aid, hampering supplies, lawmakers said.
Biden issued a national security memo in February requiring written guarantees after Democratic lawmakers began questioning Israel's compliance with international law in its operations in Gaza.
The memo, issued by Biden in February, requires Secretary of State Antony Blinken to report to Congress by Wednesday on whether there are credible assurances from Israel that its use of U.S. weapons complies with international law.
At least four State Department offices told Secretary Blinken last month that they found the (Israeli) assertions "neither credible nor reliable."
According to a report issued by the Ministry of State for Relief Affairs on the humanitarian situation in Gaza as a result of the aggression of the Zionist enemy since the seventh of last October, until the twenty-fourth of April, 265,000 citizens face a crisis of medium levels of food insecurity, 854,000 citizens face emergency levels of food insecurity, and 1.1 million people face catastrophic levels of food insecurity.
She pointed out that 28 children died due to malnutrition and dehydration, and that 31% of children under the age of two in northern Gaza suffer from acute malnutrition, and 10% of children under the age of two in Rafah suffer from acute malnutrition.
The Zionist enemy forces continue their aggression by land, sea and air on the Gaza Strip since the seventh of last October, resulting in the death of 34,622 citizens, most of them women and children, and the injury of more than 77,867 others, while thousands of victims are still under the rubble and in the roads and ambulance and rescue crews cannot reach them.
Al-hamadani
resource : SABA
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