U.S. tax dollars should be funding humanitarian aid in Gaza, not destroying it and killing its women and children

The sun sets behind destroyed buildings in Gaza on March 3.Photographer: Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty Images. Most of Gaza has been destroyed by Israel and over 30,000 mainly women and children have been killed. Despite all this US president Joe Biden wants to give Israel $14 Billion US tax money , but “not a single nickel more to Netanyahu “said Senator Bernie Sanders “to kill more women and children in Gaza”

Despite all the killings of civilians in Gaza US tax money and arms continue to flow to Israel and Mr Biden , who described himself as a Zionist wants to send billions more to Israel to destroy Gaza and kill more women and children. Over 25 000 women and children have been killed since October 7, 2023 . The question is how many more does Mr Biden want to be killed in Gaza where one in 20 children has reportedly been killed. Time to end this Genocide and insanity !

“Over the past five decades, American taxpayers have invested more than $7 billion to finance hundreds of projects in humanitarian relief and development in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, all under the banner of “peacebuilding.” But the Biden administration is currently providing the weaponry that is killing the very people the government set out to help and is failing to protect the life-giving projects that American money created. In addition, the administration has now suspended funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, the largest humanitarian group in Gaza, as owe 2 million Palestinians there face mass homelessness, famine and disease, ” BRUCE STANLEY, JONATHAN EVANS AND ANNIE FOSTER wrote in an opinion article in Los Angeles Times last January

“We’ve spoken to a dozen humanitarian-aid colleagues who are retired senior staff from Amideast, Anera, CARE, Catholic Relief Services, Mercy Corps, Save the Children and World Vision. All of us managed or consulted on projects that the U.S. Agency for International Development funded in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank during the 1990s and 2000s. We helped to improve family and primary healthcare access; train professors in teaching strategies; build nursing colleges; enhance the agricultural food sector; make more effective use of scarce water resources; and support municipal and social services. Through our nongovernmental organizations, we also worked to increase employment opportunities and create the first internet network for Palestinian NGOs and academic institutions.” , They added

“We worked closely with the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv, the consulate in Jerusalem and USAID personnel on these initiatives. A key motivation driving all of us was the responsibility of the U.S. to reinforce the economic, social and cultural rights of the Palestinian people as part of its moral and legal commitment to regional peace and security. This is what we worked so hard to achieve — and it is what more than 1,000 current USAID staffers affirmed in November when they publicly called on President Biden to support a cease-fire, ” they added

For us, this daily destruction of Palestinian society is very personal. Throughout the decades of this conflict, we have always condemned physical, structural, sexual and cultural violence no matter its justification or its perpetrators. The vicious Hamas attack on Oct. 7 and the subsequent ferocious response by Israel in Gaza can only lead to intergenerational insecurity for Israel, the fracturing of Palestinian society and further postponement of the Palestinian right to self-determination in safety and security, They added

As of late January, most of what was produced with the help of development and relief assistance in Gaza has been destroyed. Ambulance drivers and medical technicians in Gaza’s hospitals were trained, only now to be killed where they work, which human rights groups say violates international humanitarian law. Hundreds of Palestinian academics were trained at American institutions so they might return to teach at Gaza universities. But now more than 100 Gaza academics have been killed, and the universities across the Gaza Strip, along with technological hardware supplied by the U.S. for educational purposes, have been destroyed. American taxpayers supported farmers to expand their productivity. Now extensive tracts of fields, crops, orchards and greenhouses have been bulldozed. Women’s empowerment projects have collapsed and many of the trained staff killed, while housing projects and sewage infrastructure have been leveled. Child disability, youth sports and other community projects no longer exist. The consequences of the siege have put Gaza in an “apocalyptic free fall,” as leaders of global humanitarian organizations described the situation last month, they added

“Both Democratic and Republican administrations promoted these USAID projects, funded by Americans and affirmed by Congress, because it showed a commitment to peace and was in the U.S. national interest. Now, without setting effective limits on violence in this war, the current U.S. administration’s policies are unraveling that mission. These decisions can only heighten cynicism about the actual intentions and credibility of the United States in providing any such aid for post-war redevelopment and whether, in the future, our investment may once again go up in smoke“, they added

All of the writers are very experienced in the region Bruce Stanley served as director for the West Bank and Gaza for Amideast, a leading American nonprofit organization engaged in international education, training, and development activities in the Middle East . Jonathan Evans served as country representative for Jerusalem, West Bank and Gaza for Catholic Relief Services. Annie Foster served as country director, Palestinian Territories for Save the Children, the World’s Leading Expert on Childhood 

Despite all the killings of civilians in Gaza money and arms continue to flow to Israel and Mr Biden , who described himself as a Zionist wants to send billions more to Israel to destroy Gaza and kill more women and children.

Not a single nickel to Netanyahu

In an interview on MSNBC on March 2, 2024 , Sen. Bernie Sanders said the U.S. needs “a new approach to Israel” and vowed to continue to vote against additional aid to the country. “Recently there was a vote. I voted against it, to give them another $14 billion,” Sanders told MSNBC’s Alex Wagner. “My view, not another nickel for Netanyahu’s government if he’s going to continue this wholesale slaughter of the Palestinian people.”

“Again, this is not some distant thing. This is with our tax dollars. Those guns and those planes are largely, or significantly, are paid for by U.S. tax dollars,” Sanders said, in a clip highlighted by Mediaite. “I mean, we cannot continue to support this right-wing extremist government. No more money.”

Over 25, 000 women and children killed in Gaza

More than 25,000 women and children have been killed in Israel’s war on Gaza since October 7, according to US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin, raising questions about the moral and legal aspects of the military tactics used by Tel Aviv.

Speaking during a congressional hearing on Thursday, Austin was asked by Congressman Ro Khanna how many Palestinian women and children had been killed by Israel, replying: “It is over 25,000, ” he replied