US senators demand ‘massive surge’ of baby formula and aid to be sent to Gaza | Gaza
Five democratic US senators ask Foreign Minister Marco Rubio to immediately “a big fluctuation” and humanitarian aid to Gaza, where babies are starving.
The letter led by Democrat Ruben Gallego from Arizona and only by Guardian comes from the Gaza city and its surrounding areas as officially classified by international monitors. According to health authorities, more than 300 people, including at least 119 children, have died in Gaza since October 2023.
The letter was also signed by Vermont’s senators Peter Welch, Tim Kaine from Virginia, Mark Kelly from Arizona and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts.
In the coming days, the situation may deteriorate significantly because Israel announced on Friday As the soldier is preparing for a new ground operation, he will no longer pause the fight to allow the delivery of aid in Gaza.
Senators, to meet the US as a moral obligation to meet the “full power and authority” to meet the letter, “Today, the infants in Gaza in Gaza, we are urgently writing about the serious crisis faced by the infants in Gaza,” he wrote.
Last week, the Senate letter made a similar objection from more than 100 parliamentary democrats led by representatives Ayanna Pressley and Brittany Pettersen. First called For an increase in baby formula delivery to Gaza.
August Report from Save The Children 43% of pregnant and breastfeeding women looking for treatment in Gaza found that they were malnourished. An estimated 65% of registered voters supports supporting the United States to help people who encounter hunger in Gaza, compared to late August Reuters/IPSOS polling.
The Israeli officials prevented them from entering the region for more than two months between March and May, and then changed the UN aid system with the US and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation-this also excluded hundreds of militarized four-fourths of infant formulas offering some of the previous levels and excluding the baby formula. A report from the UN’s Human Rights Office early August 859 people recorded Since it was started in May, GHF has been killed around the operations.
World Food Program More food trucks on Thursday After Gaza was able to enter within the last few days after a growing global printing campaign, the increase was still far below. 500-600 The UN says it is necessary to enter every day to make a pit in the crisis. It is likely that Israel will no longer be delivered by Israel and make any progress.
Senators, malnutrition mothers can not continue breastfeeding and according to the letter, the formula “in many cases the only option to survive the baby,” he said. Volunteer doctors entering Gaza have to have Israeli officials reported that the baby formula from the border luggage.
Gallego recently returned from a paternity leave after a baby greeted his son in June. He continued to vote in the Senate.
“We address you not only as a government official, not as a parent, but also as a parent,” senators wrote to Rubio. “No child should encounter the helplessness and pain that we have witnessed in real time in Gaza.”
The letter reflects the careful evolution of Gallego and the wider party in Gaza policy, as surveys show an overwhelming approval among the democrats of voting for the war of Israel. Arizona Senator, who recently visited Iowa among the speculation about the 2028 Presidential proposal, did not vote for joint decisions, especially to prevent Bernie Sanders’ sales of arms to Israel last month. Gallego said he was later.reassuring”And he would look at the conditioning aid in the future.
However, the movement within the party is slowly moving. This week at the Minneapolis at the Democratic National Committee meeting, a arms embargo on Israel was rejected, initially the moderate ceasefire solution passed, but later withdrawn to protect the party unity.
Voters are much less divided: a Quinnipiac survey from the end of August 60% of registered voters Open to provide more military aid to Israel, the highest opposition to date. The same questionnaire revealed that half of the voters – and 77% of the democrats – believes that Israel was genocide in Gaza.
Integrated Food Safety Classification (IPC) system, the world’s leading global hunger monitor, In an analysis Last week, more than half a million Palestinians in Gaza experienced famine and predicted that the number would increase. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the findings of the report with the government a “open lie” to suggest Missing data was used in the IPC report.
Senators demand a written response until September 1, demanding quick action from Rubio. They urge all transitions to re -open to Gaza to re -open to humanitarian aid and Israel’s access to “largely scaling”.
“This moment demands moral clarity and decisive action,” they wrote. “We must use our leverage to ensure the protection of the most vulnerable.”
