Democrats demand Trump cut funding for controversial Gaza aid organization

In letter, 21 senators say funding to GHF resulted in killings of more than 700 civilians seeking food and violated the lawTwenty-one Senate Democrats are demanding Donald Trump immediately cut funding to a controversial Gaza aid organization they say has resulted in the killings of more than 700 civilians seeking food and violated decades of humanitarian law.The letter, led by senators Chris Van Hollen of Maryland and Peter Welch of Vermont, comes as international criticism mounts over the US and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s operations, arguing that its model “shatters well-established norms that have governed distribution of humanitarian aid since the ratification of the Geneva Conventions in 1949” by blurring the lines between aid delivery and military security operations. Continue reading...

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