[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 123 (Thursday, July 17, 2025)]
[House]
[Pages H3372-H3373]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           STARVATION IN GAZA

  (Ms. TLAIB asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. TLAIB. Mr. Speaker, the Israeli Government has deliberately 
blocked food, medicine, and fuel from entering Gaza. The entire 
population of Gaza is experiencing famine, and half a million 
Palestinians are facing catastrophic levels of starvation.
  At least 66 Palestinian children have already been starved to death. 
Maybe if my colleagues would close their eyes, or pretend that they are 
not Palestinians, they would care, that they would care that 
Palestinians have been forced to eat grass and animal feed--they are 
human beings--while thousands of trucks carrying food sit blocked at 
the border.
  The Israeli Government is using starvation as a weapon of war. Now, 
the Israeli forces are deliberately shooting and killing starving 
Palestinians lined up for food, and the responses by the Israeli 
Government do not add up. Mr. Speaker, 875 have been murdered in 6 
weeks alone.
  The so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, backed by the Israeli 
Government and the Trump administration, is a deadly sham. The United 
Nations calls it a death trap.
  The Israeli soldiers have even admitted it themselves. They were 
ordered to deliberately shoot unarmed Palestinians, many of them 
children, calling it a killing field.
  This is not a game, Mr. Speaker. These are human beings.

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  If colleagues need to close their eyes again and pretend they are not 
Palestinians to care, then maybe they should. We would stop this 
madness and stop supporting the genocide in Gaza.

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