In a 269 – 144 vote in favour of the bipartisan amendment at the US House of Representatives, the move attempts to bar the State Department from using international affairs budget funds to cite figures and statistics published by Gaza’s Health Ministry, essentially censoring any mention of the number of Palestinians that Israel has killed in the besieged ...
In the second letter in the space of a week, White House urged to take steps to prevent the forced expulsion of 1,000 Palestinians in occupied West Bank.
The 57 House members, largely left-leaning Democrats and led by Representative Andre Carson, noted that Abu Akleh held US citizenship and pointed to divergent accounts on how she died on May 11.