Middle East – live: Netanyahu vows to fight US sanctions on IDF as ‘mass grave found’ under Gaza hospital
Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to fight any impending US sanction on the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) amid a slump in bilateral ties following the Israeli military onslaught in the Gaza Strip.
President Joe Biden’s administration is expected to sanction a unit of IDF after a ProPublica investigation claimed that the State Department sat for months on evidence of serious human rights abuses.
The investigation published on Wednesday revealed that an internal State Department investigation had, months ago, identified several Israeli police and military units facing credible accusations of violating human rights, including allegations of torture.
It’s an investigation required by law, with the panel having been set up as part of the so-called “Leahy law”, which prohibits US funding from going to military or security units found to have committed atrocities.
This comes amid an Al Jazeera report of bodies being recovered from a mass grave inside the Nasser Medical Complex in Gaza’s Khan Younis.
“In the hospital courtyard, civil defence members and paramedics have retrieved 180 bodies buried in this mass grave by the Israeli military. The bodies include elderly women, children and young men,” the outlet reported, quoting its reporter and Palestinian emergency services from Khan Younis.
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