Two U.S. government agencies found that Israel blocked food and medicine from reaching Palestinians in Gaza. Antony Blinken rejected the findings.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks before boarding a plane, Oct. 11, 2023, at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, en route to Israel.from the U.S.
ProPublica wrote that both Blinken and the Biden administration did not accept the findings from the U.S. government’s top two authorities on humanitarian aid. In Blinken’s statement to Congress on May 10, he said, “We do not currently assess that the Israeli government is prohibiting or otherwise restricting the transport or delivery of U.S. humanitarian assistance.”
On the day Blinken sent his report to Congress, Sen. Chris Van Hollen, , denounced the administration for choosing “to disregard the requirements” of the National Security Memorandum, or NSM-20. “Whether or not Israel is complying with international standards with respect to facilitating humanitarian assistance to desperate, starving citizens may be debatable,” he wrote in a.
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