US Senator Bernie Sanders questions US funding to Israel without conditions

US senator Bernie Sanders has questioned the US providing Israel funds without any conditions.

In a video posted on X, he said: “Currently, the US provides $3.8 billion a year to Israel with close to no strings attached.”

While addressing the Senate, he added that the US cannot be “complicit in actions that violate International law and our own sense of decency”.

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