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Progressive Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Cori Bush raised signs calling on President Joe Biden to 'stop sending bombs' to the Israeli military as he pledged during his State of the Union address Thursday night to provide more humanitarian aid to Gazans and decried the war's grisly death toll.'This war has taken a greater toll on innocent civilians than all previous wars in Gaza combined. More than 30,000 Palestinians have been killed, most of whom are not Hamas,' Biden said.
The president also called for a six-week cease-fire—far from the 'lasting cease-fire' that Tlaib and Bush demanded during Biden's speech.'The only cease-fire that is morally acceptable is a lasting cease-fire,' Bush wrote on social media. 'It is inhumane to pause the violence for six weeks and then continue sending bombs right after.'While decrying the immense suffering in Gaza as 'heartbreaking,' Biden did not acknowledge the critical role that U.S.
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