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Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders called Sunday for more "balanced" US Middle East policy, deeming "Israel's" actions in the 2014 Gaza war as "disproportionate."

Sanders, who would be the first Jewish US president, adopted a critical position on the issue when "everyone supports whatever "Israel" wants to do."

"The only way we succeed [in the Middle East] is that if the United States plays the role which is of course we are going to support "Israel," but you cannot ignore the needs of the Palestinian people," he said.

Dismissing the relevance of his background, Sanders said, "I would hope that every person in this country wants to see the misery of never-ending war and conflict ended in the Middle East."

Earlier this month, the Vermont senator criticized the "Israeli" role during the 2014 Gaza war, saying he believed more than 10,000 innocent people died in the conflict.

In this regard, the UN estimated that more than 70 percent of the 2,130 Palestinians of the Gaza Strip killed in the conflict, which destroyed infrastructure and residential buildings, were civilians.

"In Gaza right now, poverty, unemployment, their community has been decimated," Sanders said. "You can't ignore that fact."

"And you can't just be only concerned about "Israel's" needs." he added. "You have to be concerned about the needs of all other people in the region."

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team