A lawsuit filed by Palestinians in Gaza and American relatives alleges that the State Department has created loopholes that allow Israel to receive U.S. aid despite violating human rights laws. The lawsuit claims that the State Department is blocking enforcement of the 1997 Leahy Law, which restricts U.S. military aid to foreign militaries involved in human rights abuses.
The State Department has carved out loopholes for Israel that give the close American ally a pass on U.S. law restricting aid to foreign militaries over human rights abuses, a lawsuit from a group of Palestinians in Gaza and American relatives asserted Tuesday. Former State Department officials and crafters of the 1997 Leahy law were among those advising and backing the lawsuit.
9 billion in the first year of the war — over its treatment of Palestinian civilians. Two former Senate staffers, Tim Reiser and Stephen Rickard, were instrumental in crafting the law, named for former Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy, and said the rising death toll in Gaza warranted the court case. The nonprofit Democracy for the Arab World Now, an Arab rights group founded by slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, helped bring the lawsuit for five Palestinians and Palestinian Americans.
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