Overview

• On CNN, Sen. Bernie Sanders called Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “a disgusting liar” for denying mass malnutrition and child starvation in Gaza
• Sanders plans to introduce a joint Senate resolution condemning offensive U.S. weapons sales to Israel over the humanitarian crisis
• President Trump publicly acknowledged seeing real starvation in Gaza, directly contradicting Netanyahu’s assertion that hunger reports were false
• The Israel Defense Forces has resumed limited humanitarian airdrops during daily pauses as UN warnings of famine and images of emaciated children mount
• AIPAC has warned it will spend heavily against any senators who support Sanders’s resolution, highlighting the group’s influential lobbying role