US says Israeli army units violated human rights

[muriel_volestrangler]

The US state department has found five units of the Israeli military responsible for gross violations of human rights in individual incidents, but says they will continue to receive US military backing.
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Even when there is such a finding, there is an exception to cutting military assistance if the state department is satisfied the cases have been dealt with and justice pursued by the government involved.

It says Israel did do this - so-called remediation - in four of the five units. However, the department declined to give any details of the incidents, the remediation, the units involved or evidence to support whether the remediation was effective.
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Israel investigated the battalion over the death of 80-year-old Palestinian-American Omar Assad who died after being bound and gagged by soldiers during a West Bank village search in 2022.
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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) later said they regretted Mr Assad's death, and a commander would be "reprimanded" and two soldiers barred from senior positions for two years - but would not be prosecuted.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68925495

A toothless law, it seems, if politics are involved. American tax dollars continue to go to units you can't trust with human rights.

[lark]

1. What's happening there is shameful and shameful that we are supporting genocide.

This needs to stop now. Bibi needs to go and a reasonable Israeli government installed which will stop the mass killings of Palestinian women and children and conduct targeted missions only to get Hamas. A reasonable Israeli government would also stop the settlers from their theft and murder.