WASHINGTON, Thursday, May 2, 2024 (WAFA) – US Senator Bernie Sanders said on Wednesday that attention should be focused on Israel’s ongoing war in the Gaza Strip rather than pro-Palestinian protests across US college campuses.

"It is time to not simply worry about the violence we are seeing on American college campuses but to focus on the unprecedented violence we are seeing in Gaza, which has killed 34,000 Palestinians and wounded more than 77,000, 70% of whom are women and children," Sanders said on the Senate floor.

His remarks came as student protests over the Israeli aggression against Gaza have spread to many college campuses after being inspired by demonstrators at New York's Columbia University.

Hundreds of students have been arrested on campuses, with protests demanding universities divest from Israel and condemning the war on the besieged enclave.

"I suggest that CNN and maybe some of my colleagues here maybe take your cameras, just for a moment, off Columbia and off UCLA (the University of California, Los Angeles). Maybe go to Gaza and take your cameras and show us the emaciated children who are dying from malnutrition because of (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu's policies," Sanders said.

"Show us the kids who have lost their arms and their legs. Show us the suffering that is going on over there," he added.

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