House of Representatives Votes 269-144 to Ban State Department from Citing Gaza Death Toll
House of Representatives Votes 269-144 to Ban State Department from Citing Gaza Death Toll
In more news from Capitol Hill, lawmakers have barred the U.S. State Department from citing death toll figures provided by the Gaza Ministry of Health. Ahead of Thursday’s vote, Congress’s lone Palestinian American lawmaker, Democrat Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, read into the Congressional Record the ...
Rep. Rashida Tlaib: “But Palestinians are not just numbers. Behind these numbers are real people — mothers, fathers, sons, daughters — who have had their lives stolen from them and their families torn apart. And we should not be trying to hide it. These are innocent children and babies who have been bombed in their tents, burned alive, dismembered and deliberately starved to death. Where is our shared humanity in this chamber? There is so much anti-Palestinian racism in this chamber that my colleagues don’t even want to acknowledge that Palestinians exist at all, not when they’re alive and now not even when they’re dead. It’s absolutely disgusting. This is genocide denial.”
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The provision specifically states that funding will not be “made available” for the State Department “to cite statistics obtained from the Gaza Health Ministry.”
This seems like rhetoric without any actual substance or consequences
The Gaza health ministry are the only ones that have real numbers. And they're probably barely counting now because all the hospitals have been bombed. Everyone else only has estimates.
No argument here, but seems like this bill says specifically there won't be any funding made available to cite this statistic, which it sounds like the State Department would have plenty workarounds for. This is why I said this seems like empty rhetoric
No funding made available is just the way Congress writes laws. It's all about allocating where money goes. And it's not like the state department was itching to say anything that puts Israel in a bad light.