Politics

US Senator Bernie Sanders Condemns Trump’s Gaza Remarks as a War Crime and Ethnic Cleansing

Gaza: U.S. Senator, Bernie Sanders, condemned US President Donald Trump's recent statements about Gaza, calling them a call for "ethnic cleansing." 'Trump stated that he wants to 'clean out' Gaza and push the millions of Palestinians living there into neighboring countries,' he said in a post on X, adding: 'There is a name for this - ethnic cleansing - and it's a war crime." He urged for strong opposition to such remarks, stating: 'This outrageous idea should be condemned by every American.'

According to Palestine News and Information Agency - WAFA, in a similar stance to Senator Bernie Sanders, Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican from South Carolina, criticized the proposal of displacing Palestinians from Gaza to other countries, slamming it as 'impractical.'