Over 40 US lawmakers urge Biden to push Israel to establish humanitarian corridor

More than 40 U.S. lawmakers urged the Biden administration to push Israel to follow international law amid Israel’s looming military campaign in Gaza and to establish a humanitarian corridor

“We are deeply concerned about the order to evacuate over a million civilians out of northern Gaza and the devastating humanitarian consequences that would ensue,” wrote the House members.

“As both the European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and the United Nations Commission on Human Rights said, imposing a complete siege on Gaza and depriving 2.3 million Palestinian civilians who have nowhere else to go — half of whom are children — of food, water, and electricity, would be a violation of international humanitarian law,” they added.

The lawmakers called on Biden to establish the delivery of food, water and electricity to Gaza, while also calling upon him to guarantee supplemental funding requests to Congress include humanitarian aid for both Israelis and Palestinians. as well as discouraging hate crimes against both Jews and Muslims in the U.S. — noting “Hamas is not the Palestinian people and the Palestinian people are not Hamas.”