Senator Bernie Sanders has criticised US lawmakers for inviting “war criminal” Benjamin Netanyahu to speak at Congress and said he won’t be attending the Israeli prime minister’s address.
“Israel had every right in the world to defend itself against the horrific Hamas terrorist attack of October 7. But you know what? Israel did not have the right under Netanyahu’s right-wing extremist leadership to go to war against the entire Palestinian people,” he said in a video posted on X.
On Friday, Republican and Democratic leaders issued a formal invitation for Netanyahu to deliver a speech in the Senate and House of Representatives, in the latest show of support for Israel amid its war on Gaza.
Netanyahu’s office said he had accepted the invitation and was “moved by the privilege of representing Israel before both houses of Congress”. It did not specify a date for the speech.
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