The U.S. Senate voted down a resolution on Tuesday night that would have frozen U.S. military aid to Israel unless the U.S. State Department conducted a review of alleged human rights violations by Israel in the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict.
The resolution, brought by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), invokes a section of the 1961 Foreign Assistance Act under which Congress can direct the State Department to provide an assessment of the human rights practices of nations receiving U.S. security assistance. Mr. Sanders’ resolution would have given the State Department 30 days from the passage of the resolution to provide the human rights review.
