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MADRID 15 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Democratic Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib has called this Thursday for the resignation of the Secretary of the US State Department, Antony Blinken, for breaking the law by selling weapons to Israel, while blocking the entry of US humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip.
“Blinken has continued to lie to Congress and should resign. American law is very clear: no nation that blocks American humanitarian aid can receive American weapons,” he declared before the House of Representatives.
Tlaib has accused the Secretary of State of “lying” when he said he “would not have changed any policies, despite admitting that the Israeli government has still failed to meet all of his demands.”
In addition, he has singled out the US Executive for refusing to comply with US legality while “Palestinian children are forced to eat pet food and insect-infested flour.”
“The Biden administration cannot choose when our own laws are complied with. Look at this and do not turn your back on being complicit in this war crime,” he said while showing a photograph of a Palestinian child in a clear state of malnutrition. . “But Blinken says there is no need to change our own policy,” said the Democratic congresswoman.
The United Nations warned last week of the serious risk of famine faced by the population of the northern Gaza Strip just as the conflict marked 400 days. According to a food security report published in mid-October, 91 percent of the population throughout the Palestinian enclave has problems surviving.
Specifically, according to this study, prepared by 16 UN agencies and NGOs, 1.95 million people will suffer food insecurity in the coming months, with 345,000 of them within what is understood as a “catastrophe” level, the most worrying for everyone.