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The United States said Monday that it has wished 5 Israeli subject units committed quality authorities abuses anterior to nan commencement of nan Israel-Hamas war. Photo by Jim Hollander/UPI | License Photo
April 30 (UPI) -- The United States has wished that 5 Israeli subject units person committed gross violations of quality authorities agelong earlier nan commencement of nan Israel-Hamas war, nan State Department said.
"We person recovered 5 Israeli units responsible for individual incidents of gross violations of quality rights," State Department spokesperson Vedant Patel said Monday during a property conference.
Four nan units person "effectively remediated these violations," he said, without elaborating connected nan violations aliases nan circumstantial remediations.
For nan last unit, which has been identified arsenic nan Netzah Yehuda, nan United States is successful interaction pinch Israel, which Patel said has submitted further accusation connected nan group to nan United States.
All quality authorities violations committed by nan subject units occurred anterior to nan Oct. 7 commencement of nan Israel-Hamas warfare and nary occurred successful Gaza, he said.
The announcement comes aft Secretary of State Antony Blinken past said successful a letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson that 3 Israeli subject battalions of nan Israel Defense Force had committed gross quality authorities violations against Palestinians successful nan West Bank.
Early past week amid expectations that nan determinations would beryllium announced and imaginable sanctions leveled astatine nan units responsible for committing quality authorities abuses, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said nan punitive measures must not beryllium imposed.
"At a clip erstwhile our soldiers are fighting nan monsters of terror, nan volition to enforce a punishment connected a portion successful nan IDF is nan tallness of absurdity and a civilized low," he said connected X.
"The authorities headed by maine will enactment by each intends against these moves."
He added that he has been moving for weeks to forestall nan sanctions from being implemented.
Patel connected Monday disregarded accusations that nan United States was giving preferential curen to Israel, stating a process is ongoing to spot if Israel violated U.S. law, specifically nan Leahy Laws.
According to nan U.S. Congressional Research Service, nan Leahy laws prohibit U.S. assistance to overseas information unit units wherever location is reliable accusation that they person committed gross quality authorities violations.
"There is nary specified point arsenic typical curen aliases double standards here," Patel said. "The standards of nan Leahy Law are applied consistently to each countries."
