Tlaib submits names of children 'Israel' killed in Gaza to Congress
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The Democratic Congresswoman invites her fellow lawmakers to examine a list of 11,355 Palestinian children, including 710 infants, murdered by "Israel" in Gaza.
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Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., speaks during a rally at the National Mall during a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Washington, Friday, October 20, 2023. (AP)
Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib has officially submitted the names of Palestinian children killed in the Gaza Strip by Israeli occupation forces into the US Congressional record.
The names were from a 649-page list recently released by Gaza’s Health Ministry, documenting the Palestinians killed in the ongoing Israeli war on the Strip.
As of September 19, the number of Palestinians killed in the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza has reached 41,272.
"The first 14 pages alone are names of babies [who] were under the age of one when they were killed," pointed out Tlaib, the sole Palestinian American serving in Congress.
The Gaza Ministry of Health released a 649-page document with the name of every identified Palestinian killed in Gaza.
— Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (@RepRashida) September 19, 2024
The first 14 pages alone are babies under the age of one.
This is not self-defense. This is genocide. pic.twitter.com/ffoKcMlAIs
"That’s 710 babies that the Israeli government has murdered," the Democratic Congresswoman added. "I wish my colleagues would look at it."
"This is not self-defense. This is genocide," she underlined.
On Monday, the Gaza Health Ministry published a detailed report listing the name, age, gender, and identification number of tens of thousands of Palestinians killed by the Israeli occupation forces over the past 11 months.
The report’s 649 pages account for 34,344 Palestinians killed as of August 31, with data still being compiled for nearly 7,000 additional people.
The Ministry of Health in Gaza has just published a 649-page document with the the name, age, gender, ID number of every Palestinian killed in Gaza from October 7 to August 31 that it has info for (over 34k out of 40k). The 1st 14 pages the age is listed as 0 (under 1 year old) pic.twitter.com/NZZNLLf7ml
— Sharif Kouddous شريف عبد القدوس (@sharifkouddous) September 15, 2024
The first 14 pages of the document include the names of infants under the age of one, while overall figures reveal that 11,355 children have been killed—representing one-third of the total victims.
Meanwhile, the final 11 pages of the document include Palestinians aged between 77 and 101, all born before the establishment of the Israeli occupation entity in 1948.
But a study by the British scientific journal The Lancet, a weekly peer-reviewed general medical journal, predicted in July that the number of martyrs killed during the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, both directly and indirectly, will exceed 186,000.
This comes despite mounting calls from lawmakers and the public for the Biden administration to end or reduce military aid to its biggest ally "Israel" due to the tens of thousands of Palestinians killed in the ongoing war on the Gaza Strip.
In a shy response to the situation, the US delayed in May the delivery of certain 2,000-pound bombs amid continued Israeli airstrikes on densely populated civilian areas in Gaza, though it moved forward with sending 500-pound bombs, as well as other weapons to "Israel".
The Palestinian Resistance factions have pointed out that the Israeli occupation forces are committing massacres against civilians in Gaza with a greenlight from US President Joe Biden's administration, which claims to be working on reaching a ceasefire that would end the war and prisoner exchange deal between Hamas and "Israel".
Read more: 'Torn to pieces': IOF killed 710 infants in Gaza before they turned 1
