Palestinian families are suing the US State Department alleging that it violated a law barring military assistance to foreign forces with credible evidence of gross human rights violations by providing support for Israel's military campaign in Gaza. The lawsuit claims this aid enables Israel's alleged harms and contributes to the humanitarian crisis in the besieged enclave.
The plaintiffs say the State Department circumvented a law which bars the U.S. from providing military assistance to foreign forces if there is credible evidence of gross violations of human rights .Palestinian families are suing the State Department over U.S. support for Israel 's military campaign in the Gaza Strip which has killed tens of thousands of people and led to a humanitarian crisis in the besieged enclave.
Palestinians wait to receive food at a distribution center near Khan Younis in southern Gaza on Tuesday Secretary of State Antony Blinken has previously denied that the department made exceptions for Israel. “Do we have a double standard? The answer is no,” he told a In the highly anticipated report to Congress, the State Department said the U.S. ultimately did not have sufficient evidence to recommend that military aid to Israel be suspended, but that the administration's assessment of the Israeli military's compliance with international humanitarian law was ongoing.
Throughout the war, there have been multiple instances of heightened tensions between the U.S. and Israel over the Israeli military's offensive.
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