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.”

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.

They said that Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites, the scandal-plagued aid scheme backed by the US and Israel, were built as tools to restrict the flow of food and control the movement of the population to the point where Palestinians find it so unbearable that they “volunteer” to depart.

The senators found that unnecessary screening and red tape meant that less than one-tenth of humanitarian aid entering Gaza via the Jordan Corridor was able to make it through.

This is despite the fact that the US had provided 280 trucks and helped build 10 warehouses to triple the capacity for humanitarian aid along the Jordan Corridor, enabling 150 trucks per day of aid.

They also shared how the US had spent about $1.5 m to purchase advanced screening machines, following a request by the Israeli government, but since the ceasefire ended in March, “Israel no longer accepts trucks screened at the US facility”.

The senators said that Jordanian officials told them convoys were coming under increasingly frequent attacks by violent settlers and protesters in recent weeks, who slashed tires and “inserted substances into the diesel tanks to render the trucks inoperable”.

Overall, the senators concluded that “the world has a moral and legal obligation to stop the ongoing ethnic cleansing… Strong words alone will not be sufficient. The world must impose penalties and costs on those who are implementing this plan”.

Wow. Never saw this coming but fucking finally. They just needed it turned into someone else’s genocide. NOW FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY HELP. We don’t have time left. We need action NOW.

USA is genocide-enabler country and that is the fact.

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.

Ok, what are you doing about it?

America Complicit in Ethnic Cleansing? THESE Senators are ANTI SEMETIC because ETHNIC CLEANSING is a National Jewish Pasttime!

Duh!

Fuck Israel, genocidal scum!

*incredulous sputtering*

Which of these politicians just voted to send Israel more assault rifles to hand out to settlers just this summer? I know Ron Wyden the other Oregon Senator that I thought I liked did.

Better late than never I suppose but what the fuck it's been 2 years now and if I knew what Israel was doing from the start the Senators knew or should have known as well.

Even my man Bernie pretended to give Israel the benefit of the doubt for what 8 months?

Duh! Captain Obvious strikes again...

This just in! Water is wet! Details of this astounding study at 11!

Yes! C'mon guys get those cojones to do something!

That's the idea.

But otherwise yould have a woman in power! A woman of color!

If only Americans cared this much when they are the ones bombing innocents and doing genocide. I guess it’s easier to criticize others than fix your own shit