Afghanistan, Oct. 27 -- U.S. Representative Rashida Tlaib has called for a complete arms embargo and sanctions on Israel, while Senator Chris Van Hollen has urged Washington to end what he described as its complicity in injustices against Palestinians and seek accountability for nine Americans killed in the occupied West Bank.

Tlaib, a Democratic congresswoman from Michigan, wrote on X on Tuesday that Palestinians would continue to face what she described as genocide, land dispossession and erasure regardless of who becomes Israel's next prime minister.

"Regardless of which war criminal becomes prime minister, Palestinians living under Israeli apartheid will continue to face genocide, land theft, and erasure," Tlaib wrote, calling on the ...