US senator condemns Israel: “We must end our complicity”
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- Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen criticized Israeli Defense Minister Yisrael Katz’s statement that a plan to remove Palestinians from Gaza had been frozen rather than canceled.
- Van Hollen recalled a report he said he co-authored after visiting the Gaza-Egypt border with Senator Jeff Merkley.
- He accused the Netanyahu government of pursuing ethnic cleansing and called for an end to US complicity with Israel.
US Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen has sharply condemned Israeli Defense Minister Yisrael Katz’s statement that a plan to remove Palestinians from Gaza remains on the table and has only been frozen by President Donald Trump.
Van Hollen responded on X, saying the plan had not been canceled. He recalled that he and Senator Jeff Merkley visited the Gaza-Egypt border last year and issued a report titled “The Netanyahu Government Is Implementing a Plan to Subject Palestinians in Gaza to Ethnic Cleansing.”
We must end our complicity with Israel.
The senator said Katz’s remarks now confirmed the objective described in that report. “Now Israel’s defense minister is confirming this objective,” Van Hollen wrote. “We must end our complicity with Israel.”
Now Israel’s defense minister is confirming this objective.
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Originally published by Cumhuriyet in Turkish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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