Most members of legislature USA, including over 60 Democrats, voted in favour of an amendment that would prohibit the State Department from utilizing wellness ministry data Gases with respect to fatalities in Gases.
(Reprinted article from MiddleEastEye.net)
The vote pushes forward a part of government that, if adopted, can further silence the debate in the US government on the devastating impact Israel's war in the Gaza Strip had on the Palestinian enclave population.
The amendment, which is part of the yearly State Department Act, passed on Thursday by 269 votes to 144. Sixty-two Democrats joined the vote while only 2 Republicans did not vote in favour.
On the day of the vote, Congressman Rashida Tlaib spoke at the Congress, saying that the amendment is fundamentally "denying genocide". The global Court of Justice ruled at the beginning of this year that there was a probable case of Israel committing genocide in the Gaza Strip, after South Africa filed a suit in this case.
"It's disgusting that my colleagues support the bill prohibiting American officials even citing Palestinian death tolls," Tlaib, the only Palestinian legislator in the U.S. Congress, said in the home of Representatives.
"They want to erase Palestinians who are alive, and now they effort to erase Palestinians who are dead. This is denial of genocide."
Since the Israeli war in Gaza began in October, many global NGOs, as well as the United Nations, have relied on the Ministry of wellness of Gaza to find out how many Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces.
It's disgusting that my colleagues support a bill prohibiting American officials from even referring to the Palestinian death toll.
They want to wipe out Palestinians who are alive, and now they're trying to wipe out Palestinians who are dead. This is denial of genocide. .twitter.com/ZY3x0BILQ0
— Congressman Rashida Tlaib (@RepRashida) 27 June 2024.
This is the only origin of regularly updated information on the number of fatalities, as Israeli forces decimated the wellness infrastructure of the enclave and repeatedly besieged respective hospitals.
To date, nearly 38,000 Palestinians have died, most of whom are women and children.
However, erstwhile thousands of Palestinians are likely to be under the rubble and the ministry faces a deficiency of resources, wellness experts They think The number of fatalities may be much higher.
Although government would force the State Department not to exploit the number of fatalities, Biden's administration questioned them already at the start of the war.
"He has no thought that Palestinians are telling the fact about how many people have died" – He said Biden at a press conference in late October.
These comments have provoked outrage not only among Palestinians, but besides among human rights groups and NGOs active on the ground in Gaza.
The same week that Biden denied the death toll, There's been reports that Biden's administration officials referred to the number of deaths of the Gaza wellness Ministry in 20 different situation reports, and 1 of the officials then said that the number of victims was most likely understated alternatively than overstated.
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