Diyar Güldoğan
08 August 2025•Update: 09 August 2025
WASHINGTON
US Sen. Bernie Sanders denounced President Donald Trump's support on Friday for Israel's war in the Gaza Strip and vowed to oppose further funding.
"Biden was wrong about his support for Israel’s war in Gaza. Trump is even worse," Sanders wrote in a scathing rebuke on X of former President Joe Biden and President Donald Trump.
The American people, Democrats, Republicans and Independents, do not want to continue spending billions of taxpayer dollars to starve children, he said.
His remarks came after the Office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the army will prepare for "taking control" of Gaza City.
Netanyahu said Israel's "goal is not to take over Gaza, but to free Gaza from Hamas and enable a peaceful government to be established there."
"Not another penny for Netanyahu's war machine," Sanders stressed.
The US Senate rejected two resolutions last week that were introduced by Sanders to block arms sales to Israel amid starvation in Gaza.
A record number of Senate Democrats, more than half of the caucus, voted in favor of the resolutions.
Israel has been facing mounting outrage for its destructive war on Gaza, where more than 61,300 victims have been killed since October 2023. The military campaign has devastated the enclave and brought it to the verge of famine.
Last November, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.
Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its war on the enclave.
