Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he spoke to senior U.S. officials about the possibility of sanctions and promised to fight any such measures.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed alarm that the United States was considering imposing sanctions on an Israel Defense Forces unit, describing it as “the height of aburdity” at a time when his troops were fighting Hamas in Gaza. “In recent weeks, I have been working against the imposition of sanctions on Israeli citizens, including in my conversations with senior American government officials,” he wrote on X. Netanyahu was responding to a report in Axios that U.S.
Last week, Blinken told reporters he had made a decision on allegations of human rights violations by Israeli units in the West Bank. His remarks were in response to a ProPublica report that he had not yet acted on the recommendations of the Israel Leahy Vetting Forum that certain Israeli military units be barred from receiving U.S. aid over human rights abuses. Most of the incidents under review took place in the West Bank and predated the Oct. 7 war, ProPublica said.
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