Biden Admin Accuses Israeli Military of ‘Gross Abuses of Human Rights’ Pre-Oct 7

Published on April 30, 2024

The Biden administration is accusing at least five Israel Defense Force (IDF) units of “gross violations of human rights” before Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks, the State Department has announced. In an April 29 press briefing, the State Department’s principal deputy spokesman, Vedant Patel, revealed that all the alleged violations occurred on the West Bank and predate the current war being fought between Hamas and Israel in the Gaza Strip. “What I can say, in terms of where the process is right now, is that after a careful process, we found five Israeli units responsible for individual incidents of gross violations of human rights,” he said....

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