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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/36142552

By Syma Mohammed
Published date: 12 September 2025 19:49 BST

Van Hollen of Maryland and Merkley of Oregon produced the report after a week-long visit to Israel, the occupied West Bank, the Rafah border with Gaza, Jordan and Egypt at the end of August. The damning 21-page report is titled, "The Netanyahu Government is Implementing a Plan to Ethnically Cleanse Gaza of Palestinians. America is Complicit. The World Must Stop It."

The report observed that overwhelming evidence shows “Israel is…implementing a plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza of Palestinians and dealing a death blow to the vision of a future Palestinian state”.

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[–] echolalia@lemmy.ml 24 points 3 days ago

They acknowledged that the campaign of destruction included the destruction or damage of 92 percent of housing units, 94 percent of the enclave's hospitals, 92 percent of schools and university buildings, and 86 percent of water and sanitation facilities.

I'm trying not to be a pessimist about this, but if only we had senators willing to call this genocide before so much destruction has already been done. So many of us are unwilling to call something a genocide until hundreds of thousands have died.

This report might be entirely ignored since these are Democratic senators.

Large USA media outlets are too focused on the death of a hatemongering podcaster to even report on this. I tried looking for articles from larger media outlets, and I only found an article from The Guardian (UK) and an MSN article... really wasn't expecting to see an MSN result.

Focusing on the death of one hatemongerer while our government supports genocide... we do live in a violent society.