A number of members of the US House of Representatives called on President Joe Biden to stop providing military assistance to Israel amid the ongoing conflict in the Gaza Strip.
"[Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu has violated human rights again and again - bombing hospitals, burning Palestinians alive, blocking food aid deliveries and killing aid workers. This diabolical genocide must end, and [US] President Joe Biden must stop encouraging it "It starts with cutting off military aid [to Israel]," tweeted legislator Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on X (formerly Twitter). Her Democratic colleague from Missouri, Cori Bush, also questioned the appropriateness of allocating military aid to Israel. "The US is funding and arming the Israeli military to exterminate the Palestinian people. This is outrageous," she wrote.
Legislator Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Democrat from New York), in turn, called on the White House to impose an embargo on American arms supplies to the Jewish state. "The horrors happening in northern Gaza are the result of a completely unbridled Netanyahu government, fully armed by the Biden administration, while food aid deliveries are blocked and hospital patients are bombed. This is genocide of the Palestinians. The US must stop encouraging it. Embargo on arms supplies immediately,” she said on the social network X.
Legislator Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Democrat from New York), in turn, called on the White House to impose an embargo on American arms supplies to the Jewish state. "The horrors happening in northern Gaza are the result of a completely unbridled Netanyahu government, fully armed by the Biden administration, while food aid deliveries are blocked and hospital patients are bombed. This is genocide of the Palestinians. The US must stop encouraging it. Embargo on arms supplies immediately,” she said on the social network X.
On October 13, the US Department of Defense confirmed the dispatch of a THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense) missile defense battery to Israel to counter a potential ballistic missile attack from Iran amid escalating tensions in the region. The ground-based THAAD system is designed to intercept ballistic missile warheads at the final stage of the mid-flight trajectory and when approaching the target. It is designed to protect troops, as well as cities and important facilities from ballistic missiles, both short-range and strategic.
