US lawmakers vote to censor Palestinian death toll in Gaza to cover Israel war crimes

Having overwhelmingly been voted in and being backed by 62 Democrats and 207 Republicans, the proposed amendment is now set to go to the Senate for consideration.
If passed, the US government will be forbidden from acknowledging that the Israeli occupation has killed at least 37,765 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and wounded 86,429 others so far. Those statistics by Gaza’s health ministry are also suspected of far underestimating the true number of deaths and injuries, primarily due to the fact that Israeli forces have significantly impacted the ministry’s capabilities to count such figures.
The vote has been condemned by many observers and critics who insist that it only aims to further censor facts relating to the scale of Israel’s war crimes in Gaza. One of those critics is Palestinian-American congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, who stated in a speech to the House ahead of the vote that since 1948, “there has been a coordinated effort, especially in this chamber, to dehumanise Palestinians and erase Palestinians from existence”.
She stressed that her “colleagues want to prohibit our own US officials from even citing the Palestinian death toll”, highlighting that fact that six children are killed in Gaza every hour. “But Palestinians are not just numbers. Behind these numbers are real people—mothers, fathers, sons, daughters who have had their lives stolen from them and their families torn apart, and we should not be trying to hide it”.
Tlaib condemned the “anti-Palestinian racism in this chamber”, emphasising that her fellow lawmakers “don’t even want to acknowledge that Palestinians exist at all. Not when they’re alive, and now, not even when they’re dead. It’s absolutely disgusting. This is genocide denial.”