Betty McCollum Is Pushing Congress to Stop Subsidizing the Torture of Palestinian Children

“The legislation I am introducing is expressly intended to end U.S. support and funding for Israel’s systematic military detention, interrogation, abuse, torture, and prosecution of Palestinian children.” – Betty McCollum

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Betty McCollum Feature photo

In December 2018, a 17-year-old Palestinian teen, Ayham Sabah, was sentenced by an Israeli military court to 35 years in prison for his alleged role in a stabbing attack targeting an Israeli soldier in an illegal Jewish settlement in the West Bank. Sabah was only 14 years old when the alleged attack took place.  Another alleged attacker, Omar

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US Congresswoman Asks For Halt On Military Aid To Israel

US congresswoman Betty McCollum has asked the State Department to investigate whether the unlawful killing Palestinians should deprive Israel of US military aid.

IMEMC News
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Rep. Betty McCollum speaks to the crowd at the Congressional Lunch on Capitol Hill during the CARE Conference in Washington, D.C. on March 7, 2013. (Amanda Lucidon/CARE)

In a letter to the State Department officials last week, the Minnesota Representative said that the deaths of Nadim Nowarah and Mohamed Odeh, in May of 2014, demonstrated the “brutal system of occupation that devalues and dehumanises Palestinian children.” The two Palestinian youths, aged 16 and 17, were killed when Israeli troops assaulted a

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