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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will use a little-known provision in the Foreign Assistance Act to force the Senate to vote Tuesday afternoon on a measure that would freeze military aid to Israel unless the State Department produces a report on potential human rights abuses in Gaza.
If adopted, Sanders’s resolution would require the State Department to report any human rights violations committed during Israel’s blockade and invasion of Gaza in the aftermath of the Oct. 7 attacks on Israeli civilians.
U.S. assistance to Israel would be frozen if the State Department fails to produce a report after 30 days.
The resolution has little chance of becoming law because it must pass both chambers and be signed by President Biden.
Sanders introduced his resolution on Thursday to force a floor debate on what he has called the Netanyahu government’s “indiscriminate and disproportionate military operations” in Gaza since the Oct. 7 attacks…
