The U.S. government has cleared foreign military assistance to go to an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) unit that was implicated in the 2022 death of a Palestinian-American man.
Deputy U.S. State Department spokesman Vedant Patel confirmed at an Aug. 12 press briefing that U.S. assistance can flow to the IDF’s Netzah Yehuda battalion, following a multi-month review process.
Reports began to circulate in April, that the Biden administration would freeze U.S. military assistance for several Israeli military components, including the Netzah Yehuda battalion.
By late April, the State Department announced it had concluded five Israeli units were responsible for past “gross violations of human rights,” but that four of those units had already taken sufficient remedial steps….