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.

      • SeaJ@lemm.ee
        10·
        3 months ago

        “There is no such thing as special treatment or double standards here,” Patel said. “The standards of the Leahy Law are applied consistently to all countries.”

        Kind of clashes with this:

        “Four of these units have effectively remediated these violations, which is what we expect partners to do… For a remaining unit, we continue to be in consultations and engagements with the government of Israel.”

        And this:

        These five units, including Netzah Yehuda, are permitted to receive US security assistance.

        So the one that hasn’t done shit to change after the human rights violations are STILL allowed US security assistance? How is that not special treatment?

        • nonailsleft@lemm.ee
          4·
          3 months ago

          So the one that hasn’t done shit to change after the human rights violations are STILL allowed US security assistance? How is that not special treatment?

          Maybe they just want to send a message to the other four

  • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    3 months ago

    All of these were incidents much before October 7th and none took place in Gaza

    but decided not to withhold military aid to the units because it believed Israel was addressing the findings.

    So announcing this is as useless as when they sanctioned like 5 settlers for about a month

    • nonailsleft@lemm.ee
      8·
      3 months ago

      They’re counting on people only reading the headline and remembering half of it for about a week

      “They’re doing something”

      • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world
        62·
        3 months ago

        Totally. The extent to which the US is providing cover for the Israeli electeds and Netanyahu is not without precedent, but this is absurdity. This is systemic genocide, not isolated war crimes.

  • sudo@programming.dev
    1·
    3 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.

  • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
    1·
    3 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.