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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 477

Leahy Law

FILE - Smoke rises after an Israeli airstrike in the central Gaza Strip, July 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana, File)
December 18, 2024, 6:34 am
Lawsuit claims State Department skirting US human rights law with Israel military aid
Palestinian families accuse US of creating higher standard when assessing alleged Israeli rights violations amid war with Hamas in Gaza; Blinken has previously rejected claim
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Israeli soldiers gather at the gate to the Sde Teiman military base, as people protest in support of soldiers arrested over suspicions of detainee abuse, July 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov, File)
October 21, 2024, 10:49 pm
US probing IDF unit for alleged abuse at detention facility, jeopardizing aid
State Dept. checking whether Force 100, tasked with guarding terror suspects at Sde Teiman base, violated human rights — if so, future aid would violate US’s ‘Leahy Law’
By ToI Staff
File - War cabinet minister Benny Gantz, right, meets with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Tel Aviv, March 22, 2024. (Courtesy)
April 22, 2024, 2:30 pm
Gantz, Gallant press Blinken not to sanction IDF unit as US stays mum
Israeli ministers say move undermines Israel’s legitimacy, has no justification; statements from Washington on their calls make no mention of subject
By ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian
Illustrative: Israeli soldiers on patrol in the flashpoint Palestinian town of Huwara on November 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
February 10, 2024, 10:07 am
Israel said worried US could slap sanctions on MKs, soldiers, settlers in West Bank
State Department officials said to give Israel 60 days to explain alleged ‘gross violations of human rights’ that could affect US supply of weapons
By ToI Staff
Sen. Ben Cardin speaking at a news conference with other leading Democratic senators at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, November 19, 2015. (JTA/Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)
April 6, 2016, 8:48 pm
Senator rails at fellow Dems over letter calling for Israel killing probe
Ben Cardin says appeal by lawmakers to secretary of state ‘just wrong,’ rejects comparison with Egypt on human rights
By JTA
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with US Secretary of State John Kerry in Berlin, October 22, 2015. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)
April 1, 2016, 9:11 pm
PM asks Kerry to back Israel on ‘extrajudicial killings’ allegations
Netanyahu has bristled at suggestions by US lawmakers that Jerusalem should be probed for possible human rights violations
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a statement to the press at his office in Jerusalem, March 23, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
March 30, 2016, 9:58 pm
Netanyahu pans US senator’s call to probe ‘extrajudicial killings’
Patrick Leahy, 10 other lawmakers questioned military aid to Israel, Egypt given allegations of human rights abuses by their security forces
By ToI Staff
File: Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy, center, discusses the US travel embargo to Cuba, January 29, 2015. (CC BY/Senate Democrats, Flickr)
March 30, 2016, 11:02 am
US senator asks for probe into possible Israeli ‘extrajudicial killings’
Patrick Leahy and 10 other lawmakers question military aid to Israel, Egypt given allegations of human rights abuses by their security forces
By Stuart Winer
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