Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont is seeking to halt a major U.S. arms transfer to Israel, announcing plans to force a Senate vote aimed at stopping the sale of bombs and bulldozers valued at nearly $500 million.

“This week, I will be forcing a vote on legislation to block the sale of nearly half a billion dollars worth of bombs and bulldozers to the Israeli military,” he said in a post on X.

The senator sharply criticized Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu’s government, accusing it of carrying out “genocide.”

“The extremist Netanyahu government that has committed genocide in Gaza does not need more military support from American taxpayers,” Sanders said in the post.

In a separate message posted Tuesday on another X account, Sanders reiterated his position, calling for immediate action to prevent the transfer.

“This week, I will be forcing a vote to block nearly $500 million in bombs and bulldozers to Israel. Enough is enough.”

He continued by arguing that American funding should not support Israel’s military operations across the region.

“U.S. taxpayers must not keep funding the Netanyahu government’s mass killing and displacement of civilians in Gaza, Iran and Lebanon,” he added.

Sanders had already taken steps last month to advance this effort, introducing joint resolutions designed to stop the proposed sales of both bulldozers and munitions to Israel.

The push comes in the wake of recent coordinated military operations in which the United States and Israel carried out extended strikes against the Islamic Republic of Iran over the course of more than a month.

{Matzav.com}