Weapons transfers to the units will not be impacted by the State Department's findings, spokesperson says

“After a careful process, we found five Israeli units responsible for individual incidents of gross violations of human rights. All of these were incidents much before October 7th and none took place in Gaza,” State Department deputy spokesperson Vedant Patel said Monday.

Patel said the findings would not impact arms transfers.

ABC News reported on Friday that the Biden administration had found at least three military units guilty of human rights violations but decided not to withhold military aid to the units because it believed Israel was addressing the findings.

  • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    An Israeli official told The Times of Israel Monday that Jerusalem “categorically rejects any attempts to harm the IDF and Israel’s right to defend itself.”

    The official added that nothing — not Iran and its proxies, State Department findings, or ICC warrants — will keep Israel from achieving its war aims.

    ICC warrants you say 🤔🤔🤔 I guess there’s something to that rumor.