Israel

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt) this week led eight of his colleagues, including Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), and Tina Smith (D-Minn.) in…

An independent and seven Democrats argued in a letter that the administration had run afoul of a part of a law that bars military aid from going to any country that blocks humanitarian aid A demonstration aimed at blocking aid trucks from entering Gaza in…

“The report that a humanitarian aid worker from Anera, an American aid organization, was killed in Gaza on March 8th, is the latest tragedy in a relief effort that has not only not gone far enough—but is failing. The circumstances of his death should be independently…

WASHINGTON–U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Near East, South Asia, Central Asia and Counterterrorism, U.S Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), a member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) released the following statement commemorating the 30th anniversary of the Oslo Accords. On this day in 1993, the Government of Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) signed the Oslo Accords on the White House lawn—a watershed moment…