Liberal Senator Bernie Sanders urged Congress to end U.S. military aid to Israel on July 30. Quoting a Brown University Research Council that calculated that the United States has paid for 70% of the Gaza war, Sanders said that American taxpayer dollars are being used to "starve children, bomb schools, kill civilians, and support the cruelty of Netanyahu and his criminal ministers." Israel has consistently said its actions in Gaza are justified as self-defense, stating its operations are aimed