'The time is long overdue': Bernie Sanders calls on Senate to end US military funding to Israel

Liberal Senator Bernie Sanders urged Congress to end US military aid to Israel on Wednesday (July 30). Quoting a Brown University Research Council that calculated that the United States has paid for 70% of the Gaza war, Sanders said that American taxpayer dollars have been used to starve children, bomb schools, kill civilians, and support the cruelty of Netanyahu and his criminal ministers. “The time is long overdue for Congress to use the leverage we have,” Sanders said, speaking in front of pictures of starving children in Gaza. The Gaza health ministry reported seven more hunger-related deaths on Wednesday, including a two-year-old girl with an existing health condition. The Hamas-run government media office in Gaza said the Israeli military killed at least 50 people within three hours on Wednesday as they tried to get food from U.N. aid trucks coming into the northern Gaza Strip.