Rolling Stone reports:

The vast majority of people in Gaza — 93 percent — are facing crisis levels of food insecurity, and Sen. Chris Van Hollen said that the United States is “complicit” in their hunger.

When asked on CBS’s Face the Nation about photographs of starving children in Gaza, Van Hollen said, “It’s very hard to look at those pictures. And the United States has been complicit. President Trump was in the region and really did nothing, said virtually nothing about what’s happening in Gaza, which is on fire.”

The Democratic senator added, “We’re in the 77th day of a full blockade. Two million Palestinians are starving. This is collective punishment that is clearly illegal under international law.”

"The United States has been complicit" in the ongoing starvation in Gaza, says Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), and tells @margbrennan the new U.S. and Israel plan to provide aid to Palestinians is "clearly not fit for purpose when it comes to trying to address this burgeoning… pic.twitter.com/I577UQw8oq

— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) May 18, 2025

While the war rages on following the collapse of a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, with Israel laying siege to the Gaza strip in a new offensive, the Trump administration has been laying groundwork for a U.S.-backed private operation, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, that it says will deliver aid to Palestinians starting at the end of this month. But the plan, in which the foundation would work with private U.S. security firms to bring food and supplies into designated areas of Gaza for aid groups to distribute, has many critics, including the United Nations. [Continue reading…]