Overview

• Sanders denounced Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a “disgusting liar” for denying reports of mass malnutrition and child deaths in Gaza.
• He warned that Israeli forces have virtually destroyed Gaza’s infrastructure, including schools, healthcare, housing and water systems, creating famine conditions.
• On Wednesday, Sanders will offer a joint resolution of disapproval to halt U.S. military aid to what he called an extremist, racist government in Israel.
• The Israel Defense Forces resumed humanitarian airdrops in Gaza and paused fighting in civilian areas this week under international pressure over aid restrictions.
• AIPAC’s super PAC has signaled it will spend hundreds of millions of dollars to defeat any senators who support Sanders’s resolution.