The U.S. Senate voted down three bills by independent Senator Bernie Sanders from Vermont that would have stopped the U.S. from selling arms to Israel worth about $20 billion.

Nearly a year after Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, Sanders introduced three Joint Resolutions of Disapproval (JRDs) in late September. The Gaza Health Ministry says that Israel’s following military ground and air campaign in Gaza has killed over 43,000 people by some estimates.

A lot of damage has been done to Gaza. Officials from the United Nations have warned that famine is about to happen because more than 1.8 million Palestinians are suffering “extremely critical” levels of hunger, Newsweek reported.

Sanders made one last plea to senators on Wednesday evening during a passionate speech on the U.S. Senate floor, where he said “do not turn a blind eye” to the humanitarian crisis and U.S. support for “mass starvation.”