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Kids in Gaza are now dying from the deliberate withholding of food.

In addition to the horror of that news, one other thing is true.

That is a war crime. It is a textbook war crime.

And that makes those who orchestrated war criminals.

Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen on the Biden administration's support for Israel's assault on Gaza and why he's calling

for a ceasefire and for Israel to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza, food trucks, not

airdrops.

He traveled to the Rafa border crossing in January.

Then investigative journalist Shane Bauer

on his journey to the occupied West Bank, where he met Israeli settlers who were

recently sanctioned for violence against Palestinians by the Biden administration.

The elephant in the room here is that this man, including, along with Nariya Membazi, is supported by the state

of Israel directly.

So, you know, according to the supported by the state of Israel directly.

So according to the language of the sanctions,

that would mean that the state of Israel itself

and all the various organizations that are supporting

him should themselves be sanctioned, but of course they haven't been.

All that and more coming up.

Welcome to Democracy Now. Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report, I'm Amy Goodman.

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