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.

  • sudo@programming.dev
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    2 months ago

    Aren’t these the ultra-orthodox that are exempt from military service? Isnt is a major liberal israeli position that these people be conscripted?

    So the israelis most explicitly calling for genocide dont want to do it themselves. And the opposition is “no you have to participate in the genocide”, thinking that’ll somehow shut them up. But then they do participate and just go nuts.