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A group of U.S. senators led by Bernie Sanders of Vermont held a press conference Tuesday urging their colleagues to support resolutions that would block the sale of tank rounds, bomb kits, and other weaponry to the Israel i government, which has repeatedly used such arms to commit horrific war crimes in the Gaza Strip over the past 13 months.
'For over a year, the Biden administration has funded the Israeli government's brutal genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, despite overwhelming opposition from across the country,' said Beth Miller, political director of Jewish Voice for Peace Action, which said it has driven more than 56,200 letters and more than 20,790 phone calls to senators imploring them to support the measures.
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