The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org. June 2, 2022 House Democrats Urge Blinken to Halt Expulsion of Palestinians -------------------------------------------------------------- This week, 15 House Democrats in the U.S. wrote a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken urging him to stop the Israeli government's planned expulsion of Palestinians from the Masafer Yatta villages in the occupied West Bank, arguing that the expulsions would be a violation of the Geneva Convention and "would amount to a war crime." .