7/31/2025–|Last update: 08:36 (Mecca time)
The US Senate has failed to adopt two draft laws that Senator Bernie Sanders submitted to ban weapons export to Israel against the background of its war on the Gaza Strip.
On Wednesday, the Council rejected Sanders to prevent the sale of US bombs and firearms to Israel, although the vote showed an increase in the number of Democrats opposed to arms sales in light of the spread of hunger and suffering in Gaza.
Sanders, independent of Vermont, has repeatedly tried to prevent the sale of offensive weapons to Israel over the past year.
The decisions presented to the Senate yesterday would stop selling bombs worth $ 675 million, in addition to shipments of 20,000 automatic offensive rifles to Israel.
Opponents of the sale of weapons to Israel again failed to obtain approval, but 27 democraticism – that is, more than half of the members of the Democratic Bloc – voted in favor of the decision on offensive rifles, and 24 in favor of the resolution on bombs sales.
This number was greater than any of Sanders’s previous efforts, which reached its climax in November last year with 18 Democrats.
The effect of famine
The number of voices shows how the images of famine coming from Gaza are increasingly dividing in the overwhelming support of Israel by both Democratic and Republican lawmakers.
Sanders said the Democrats respond to “a large majority of the American people, tired of spending billions of dollars on an Israeli government that is currently raising children to death.”
As the war approaches its second year, the leading International Food Crisis Authority said that “the worst star scenario is currently revealing in the Gaza Strip.”
The head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Republican Senator Jim Rish from Idaho, argued that the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) is responsible for the conflict and the current situation in Gaza.
“They use Gaza residents as human shields, and they steal the food that Gaza population needs. It is in the interest of America and the world to see this terrorist group destroy.”
On Wednesday evening, Democratic Senators spent about an hour in delivering a series of words in the Hall of the Council, which drew attention to the children who died in Gaza.
They also called on the Trump administration to reconsider its approach to the conflict, including expanding the scope of aid to Gaza through experienced organizations in the region.
“The Trump administration and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are responsible for increasing food aid and other aid to Gaza urgently,” Chuck Schumer, the leader of the Democrats in the Senate, said in a statement after the vote. However, she voted against the decision.
Other senior Democrats violated this principle, including Senator Patti Murray, a democracy from Washington, who voted against similar decisions from Sanders previously, which voted in favor of legislation this time.