Blinken spoke about the latest report on Monday. (AP Photo)
"The conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza continues to raise deeply troubling concerns for human rights," Blinken wrote.
He explained that the U.S. has "made clear" that Israel needs to follow international law "and take every feasible precaution to protect civilians." Blinken emphasized that the department is still "urgently" raising concerns about civilian deaths in Gaza during the war.
Putin's government was mentioned in the report for civilian violence in Ukraine. (Sergei Savostyanov/Pool/AFP )
The Jewish state was featured after only Russia's civilian violence in Ukraine and "mass killings" and "rape" perpetrated by the Sudanese Armed Forces and Rapid Support Forces.
Hamas terrorists are mentioned in the same paragraph, with the U.S. condemning Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel, which, it noted, "included appalling abuses, including gender-based violence and sexual violence."
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Hamas launched an unprompted attack on Israeli civilians on Oct. 7. (Yousef Masoud/Majority World/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
After noting the urgent concern over Israel's civilian precautions, Blinken added, "We have repeatedly condemned Hamas’ abhorrent misuse of civilians and civilian infrastructure as human shields."
"Hamas' horrific attacks on Israel on Oct. 7 last year, and the devastating loss of civilian life in Gaza as Israel exercises a right to ensure that those attacks never happen again, have also raised deeply troubling human rights concerns," Blinken reiterated at a press conference following the report's unveiling.
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A State Department official told Fox News Digital that the report's discussion of issues globally is not a ranking of countries that compares them to one another.
Representatives for the Israeli government did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment for purposes of this story.
Julia Johnson is a politics writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business, leading coverage of the U.S. Senate. She was previously a politics reporter at the Washington Examiner.
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