US ‘complicit’: Joe Biden under pressure to stop arms shipments to Israel

Washington: President Joe Biden is under increasing pressure to limit weapons supplies to Israel as members of his own ranks demand that the United States stop being complicit in the murder of innocent people in Gaza.

As Biden declared he was “outraged and heartbroken” by the deaths of seven aid workers killed by Israeli forces on Monday, Democrats have intensified calls for the administration to stop approving military aid to Israel unless the nation does more. to protect lives.

The most damning condemnation came from progressive Jewish Senator Bernie Sanders, who described the slaughter in Gaza as “one of the worst humanitarian disasters in the modern history of the world” and told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: “stop murdering innocent people”.

“Right now, what Israel is doing is not just fighting Hamas, but going to war against the entire Palestinian people, and this horror of the World Central Kitchen is only part of what the war machine of Israel is doing. Netanyahu,” Sanders told MSNBC, in reference. to the charity convoy that was attacked on Monday while delivering aid to starving people in Gaza.