Senator Chris Van Hollen, a Democrat from Maryland, visited the Rafah border crossing back in January, and has been raising concerns ever since that Israel is obstructing the flow of vital supplies.
Is the U.S. using every tool at its disposal to get food to people starving in Gaza?He visited the Rafah border crossing back in January, and has been raising concerns ever since that Israel is obstructing the flow of vital supplies.
Senator Van Hollen joined Mary Louise Kelly to discuss what he saw, and the urgency in allowing more aid for Palestinians.I understand that there are already efforts to put this law in play. What is this law supposed to do? How would it work?This law is very straightforward. It says the United States shall not provide military assistance to any country if that country is prohibiting or otherwise restricting, directly or indirectly, the transport and delivery of U.S. assistance into an area.
So, for example, we visited a warehouse full of goods that had been rejected. This included maternity kits. This included water purification systems. Allegedly, these were somehow dual-use items, but no reasonable person could conclude that.Dual-use meaning could also have some kind of military purpose, and Israel maintains it needs to make sure that nothing that Hamas could use for military purposes be allowed in.Well, that's exactly right.
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