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'Genocidal denial': US House bars use of official Gaza death toll

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Fri, 28 Jun 2024 18:03 UTC

The US House of Representatives passed an amendment on 27 June barring State Department officials from citing the Gaza Health Ministry's death toll of the ongoing Israeli war on the strip.

The amendment was passed to the State Department's yearly appropriations bill in a bipartisan vote of 269-144.

Sixty-two Democratic lawmakers voted in favor, as well as all but two Republicans.

Palestinian-American representative of the Democratic party, Rashida Tlaib, slammed the amendment in a speech at the House on Wednesday, a day ahead of the vote. Tlaib said the decision was "absolutely unconscionable" and represents a wider trend of dehumanizing Palestinians in the House.

Tiaib said:

"Since 1948... there has been a coordinated effort, especially in this chamber, to dehumanize Palestinians and erase Palestinians from existence. 'Apartheid' Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, and in real time, and this amendment is an attempt to hide it ... This is genocide denial."

Citing the now-barred Gaza Health Ministry death toll, she added:

"My colleagues want to prohibit our own US officials from even citing the Palestinian death toll. So let me read it into the record. Here are the latest casualties of Palestinians killed: 37,718 Palestinians, including more than 15,000 Palestinian children and more than 86,377 Palestinians have been injured."

Tel Aviv has repeatedly accused the Gaza Health Ministry of inflating figures for political purposes.

While it does not regularly release underlying data, it confirmed in April 23,000 deaths with full names and identifying information. It is the only official body tracking the daily number of people killed by Israel in the Gaza Strip.

Last month, the World Health Organization (WHO) stated its full confidence in the figures of the Gaza Health Ministry. WHO spokesperson Christian Lindmeier said at the time:

"Nothing wrong with the data, the overall data (more than 35,000) are still the same. The fact we now have 25,000 identified people is a step forward."

There are also thousands whose bodies remain trapped under the rubble.

In November 2023, US Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs, Barbara Leaf, said when asked about skepticism over the Gaza Health Ministry death toll that the numbers could actually be higher.

Comment: More details from Press TV:

The amendment initiative was led by Representatives Jared Moskowitz, Josh Gottheimer, Joe Wilson, Mike Lawler, and Carol Miller.

Representative Barbara Lee also voiced her objections on the House floor, noting that:
"The Gaza Health Ministry's data is often the only information available about what is happening on the ground in Gaza. Israel has sealed Gaza's borders barring foreign journalists and others who can offer this reporting. The journalists and medical professionals who are there are unable to account for all of the bodies trapped under rubble and discovered in mass graves."

Best kind of reactionary denial is to not seek nor engage real information? Says a lot about the US government and its conditional bias affecting topics it doesn't like.

Reader Comments

ReRan · 2024-06-29T23:57:26Z

This is unbelievable. And yet, it happened.

andy · 2024-06-30T00:37:08Z

Just another day in America the land of the free to stick your head in the sand . ''if I don't hear it or see it, it never happened

andy · 2024-06-30T00:38:23Z

Just another day in America the land of the free to stick your head in the sand . ''if I don't hear it or see it, it never happened

LindaMay · 2024-06-30T01:59:10Z

andy Loll so right!!

LindaMay ·

LindaMay Add Canada

· 2024-06-30T02:00:54Z

Dwoods44 · 2024-06-30T06:11:09Z

Quote SOTT editor: "Says a lot about the US government and its conditional bias affecting topics it doesn't like."

It is not bias . The Congress has been either extorted or bought by the Israeli lobbyists or the Mossad. However, they were stupid to make it more visible by removing the DEAD count from the bill.

Psstoffgoy · 2024-06-30T06:12:13Z

Sixty-two Democratic lawmakers voted in favor, as well as all but two Republicans.

Palestinian-American representative of the Democratic party, Rashida Tlaib, slammed the amendment in a speech at the House on Wednesday, a day ahead of the vote. Tlaib said the decision was "absolutely unconscionable" and represents a wider trend of dehumanizing Palestinians in the House.

Is this some kind of act or does she truly not understand that she is nothing more than a "token" in the show.

Dwoods44 · 2024-06-30T07:30:22Z

Psstoffgoy I am relatively sure she does not know she is a token.

AAF ·

Criminals, all.

· 2024-06-30T06:50:17Z

parzival · 2024-06-30T07:23:41Z

This is the problem, these are the traitors:

The following 28 Jews are in Creepy Joe Biden’s Cabinet and most important Administrative positions:

1) Doug Emhoff, Jewish Husband of Kamala Devil Harris

2) Janet Yellin, Jewish Secretary Treasury

3) Anthony Blinken, Jewish Secretary of State

4) Robert Klain, Jewish Chief of Staff

5) David Cohen, Jewish Deputy Director CIA

6) Merrick Garland, Jewish Attorney General

7) Alejandro Mayorkas, Jewish Secretary Homeland Security

8) Avril Haines, Jewish Director National Intelligence

9) Wendy Sherman, Jewish Deputy Secretary of State

10) Victoria Nuland, Jewish Secretary State Political Affairs

11) Eric Lander, Jewish Office of Science Technology

12) Jeffry Zeints, Jewish Covid Czar

13) Rachel Levine, Jewish Assistant Health Secretary

14) and 15) Cass Sunstein, Jewish Senior Counselor at the Department of Homeland Security, and his wife, Samantha Power, Head of USAID

16) Dana Stroul, Jewish Pentagon Senior Policy Official on the Middle East

17) Rochelle P. Walensky, Jewish CDC Director

18) Anne Neuberger, Jewish Director of Cybersecurity at NSA

19) Chanan Weissman, Jewish Director of Technology at National Security Council

20) Avril Haines, Jewish Director of National Intelligence

21) Polly Trottenberg, Jewish Deputy Secretary of Transportation

22) Jessica Rosenworce,l Jewish Acting Chairwoman FCC

23) Jennifer Klein, Jewish Co-Chair of the Gender Policy Council

24) Jared Bernstein, Jewish Member of Council of Economic Advisers

25) Jeff Zients, Jewish COVID Czar

26) David Kessler, Jewish Chief Science Officer of COVID Response

27) Stephanie Pollack, Jewish Deputy Administrator Federal Highway Administration

28) Gary Gensler, Jewish Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission

You may ask yourself, what is the likelihood of this happening?

Dwoods44 · 2024-06-30T11:40:28Z

parzival In thinking about how the Israel vs Gaza played out, I was questioning why the Woke programmed have broken into the anti-Israel and anti-Gaza ? Woke is not unified in their indoctrination.

What I think has occurred is that the Common Core Woke education for systemic racism, sexual identity, identity politics, social activism DID NOT include the Israel always good, Palestinians always bad . Therefore the Woke social activism has fallen on both sides being active.

Psstoffgoy · 2024-06-30T12:00:22Z

parzival I would hope people start to comprehend that a Jew is no longer a religious affiliation but a tribe of filthy fucking organisms pretending to be human. These filthy bastards hate us, nature, love, family and anything to do with our natural world including real jews.

parzival · 2024-06-30T07:59:47Z

Speaking of death toll: There's conjecture that Mossad killed Congressman Tom Massie's wife. Let's see if any alternative media runs a story on this. Congressional spouse, 50, mysterious death after the most anti-AIPAC member of Congress steps into the national spotlight. Sudden death... Here's the MSM bland pablum: [Link] Alternative media: [Link]

Dwoods44 · 2024-06-30T10:08:23Z

parzival Thanks for the link. We don't know the explanation of her death, but we do know that the Why now? question would focus on Massie's opposition to Israel.

parzival ·

Dwoods44

· 2024-06-30T12:15:24Z

Awordinyourear · 2024-06-30T09:22:50Z

Good-bye USA,see ya. Your so done.

LindaMay · 2024-06-30T09:26:41Z

Awordinyourear Yas!

psst ...You're

Awordinyourear · 2024-06-30T09:31:35Z

If a Congress or Parliament is the brain of the Nation the vote to outlaw reporting of the dead in Palestine is proof of that states dementia. A brain parasite can cause dementia.

You think Joe has a problem? nothing by comparison.

Peter Jennings · 2024-06-30T11:39:14Z

And just who are the US House of Representatives representing?

Why can't these children simply put their fingers in their ears whenever the true figure of the horror being done against the Palestinian people is mentioned?

These representatives are going to bring such an evil to america and then disappear to the stolen lands leaving america to dry up and blow away in the breeze. Netty does have a way with words.

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