Another in an ongoing series:
Dear Senator Fetterman;
I'd like to ask you again about Israel. In early August you denied that there was genocide in Gaza, despite Amnesty International and other human rights groups saying otherwise.
This morning, The New York Times reported:
Gaza City and the surrounding territory are officially suffering from famine, a global group of experts announced on Friday, nearly two years into an unrelenting war in which Israel has blocked most food and other aid from entering the Gaza Strip.
The group, which the United Nations and aid agencies rely on to monitor and classify global hunger crises, said that at least half a million people in Gaza Governorate were facing the most severe conditions it measures: starvation, acute malnutrition and death.
And:
The group said in a report published on Friday that a combination of several factors had tipped Gaza from a hunger crisis into famine: the intensifying conflict, stringent Israeli restrictions on aid, the collapse of health care and sanitation systems, the destruction of local agriculture and the growing number of times people have been forced to flee for new shelters.
Are you willing to say that there's famine in Gaza?
You also voted against Senate Resolution 224, which pointed out the humanitarian crisis facing Palestinians in Gaza and called for a cease-fire and an end to the food blockade. You were the only Democrat in the Senate to vote against this resolution.
Can I ask why? And given the above report designating famine in Gaza, do you regret this vote of yours?
I'll await your answer.
As always, I'll post here whatever answer I get from the Senator.
