Bernie Sanders to support Iron Dome funding in exchange for Gaza aid

• Author: JERUSALEM POST STAFF
• Published date: 08 October 2021
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

Sanders acknowledged that while Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system saves countless civilian lives, it is already fully funded, and the extra $1 billion offered by the US is on top of $3.8 billion already supplied to Israel from the US - more aid than to any other country.

He then stressed the damage caused to infrastructure in Gaza and Palestinian lives during Operation Guardian of the Walls this past May. Over 1,000 homes were destroyed, Gaza's only facility for COVID-19 testing was destroyed, 72,000 people were displaced, water and sewage lines were destroyed, the letter elaborated, among other damages.

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"If the goal of this supplemental funding is to help Israel replenish Iron Dome after the war that took place in May, it would be irresponsible if we do not at the same time address the enormous destruction and suffering that that war caused the Palestinians in Gaza," Sanders wrote.

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