Gaza Needs Immediate Humanitarian Aid

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Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, there is a catastrophic humanitarian crisis in Gaza. It is happening before our eyes.

Tons of food, medicine, water, shelter, and other urgent humanitarian aid remains blocked from entering Gaza by Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. The World Food Programme and NGOs have been forced to close their programs or are using the last of their dwindling supplies.

For the first time, lab technicians with the American Near East Refugee Aid organization are detecting signs of starvation in the lab work of one-third of all blood and urine samples of their patients in Gaza.

Israeli officers charged with monitoring conditions inside of Gaza have told their commanders that it is on the brink of starvation.

Mr. Speaker, for too long Congress has been complacent and complicit about the suffering of the Palestinian people in Gaza. We need to speak out and demand the rapid, unimpeded, impartial, neutral, and independent delivery of humanitarian aid today. Tomorrow may be too late.

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