United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken, right, meets with Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant in Tel Aviv, Israel on Jan. 9. (Elad Malka (IMoD)/Anadolu via Getty Images)
The law requires an automatic cutoff of aid to a military unit if the State Department finds credible evidence that it has committed gross abuses. A second Leahy law says the same for Defense Department training of foreign militaries.
Rights groups long have accused U.S. administrations, including Biden's, of shirking rigorous investigations of allegations of Israeli military killings and other abuses against Palestinians to avoid invoking such laws aimed at conditioning military aid to lawful behavior by foreign forces, according to The Associated Press.
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Israeli soldiers move on the top of a tank near the Israeli-Gaza border, as seen from southern Israel, on Thursday, April 25. (AP/Leo Correa)
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The court may accuse the senior government figures of pursuing an excessively harsh military response to Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks on Israel and preventing the delivery of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, the New York Times is reporting, citing Israeli and foreign officials.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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