Secretary of State Antony Blinken takes his seat for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the State Department's FY 2025 budget request on Tuesday, May 21, 2024. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Cardin warned that anyone who was speaking would be removed, but that did not deter an elderly woman who repeatedly shouted, "Stop the genocide," while being escorted out by police.
Blinken began his prepared statement again, when a woman suddenly rushed toward his table shouting, "Blinken is a war criminal. He is a war criminal. The blood of 40,000 people is on his hands."
"The blood of 40,000 Palestinians is on his hands," she continued as Capitol police officers physically pulled her from the room. "He is a war criminal. He is a war criminal. Blinken is a war criminal."
A fourth person, another female protester, was then removed while shouting, "Blinken, you are funding a genocide in Gaza. There have been seven mass graves outside of hospitals."
"This is sick. This is deranged. You are a war criminal. Shame on you," she yelled.
Blinken is advocating before Congress for President Biden's more than $60 billion budget request for the State Department and the Agency for International Development. Blinken is testifying before the Democrat-controlled Senate first, before the full Foreign Relations Committee, and later Tuesday, before the Appropriations subcommittee.
Police remove an anti-Israel agitator who interrupted Secretary of State Antony Blinken's testimony. (CSPAN)
During Blinken’s testimony, Cardin, joined by Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., John Fetterman, D-Penn., Jim Risch, R-Idaho, Katie Britt, R-Ala., and John Thune, R-S.D., released a statement condemning the International Criminal Court (ICC)’s decision to pursue arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his defense minister. ICC prosecutor Karim Khan also accused three Hamas leaders of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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"These actions by the ICC jeopardize efforts to bring about sustainable peace in the Middle East. It puts at risk sensitive negotiations to bring home hostages, including Americans, and surge humanitarian assistance," the bipartisan group of senators wrote. "The application for arrest warrants also draws a false equivalence between Israel with its longstanding commitment to the rule of law, and Hamas’ theocratic, autocratic, and unaccountable rule over Gaza. To state the obvious: Israel is a functioning democracy, while Hamas is a terrorist organization."
Danielle Wallace is a reporter for Fox News Digital covering politics, crime, police and more. Story tips can be sent to danielle.wallace@fox.com and on Twitter: @danimwallace.
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