Gaza is Starving

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Ms. DEAN of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, there are places on this Earth with unbearable suffering. Right now Gaza is starving. Children are starving.

These photographs are very difficult to look at, but I ask you to look because this is a man-made famine. We are 698 days into the Hamas- Israel war, which we all understand, but it has been nearly 200 days since Prime Minister Netanyahu barbarously blocked all food, water, and medicine into Gaza.

There are Palestinians in a cage with very little resources. There are emaciated children too weak to walk or speak. Doctors, aid workers, and journalists struggling with hunger and malnutrition, or being killed as they fight to save the sick and wounded.

Instead of responding with mercy and moral clarity, the world watches and the Trump administration responds with its usual weakness and cruelty, denying injured Palestinian children passage to the United States for care.

This massive suffering is man made, thus it must be stopped by man.

Mr. Speaker, Mr. Netanyahu must cease-fire now, bring all hostages home now living and dead, and surge humanitarian aid now. ``We must repair the world''; ``Tikkun Olam.''

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