2024-05-10 20:53:44
The Biden administration plans to review and report to Congress whether Israel‘s military operation in the Gaza Strip violated international humanitarian law. The report is expected to criticize Israel but conclude that it did not violate the conditions for the use of weapons.
According to Axios, an American Internet media outlet, on the 9th (local time), three U.S. officials said this and that U.S. Secretary of State Tony Blinken plans to submit this report as early as the 10th.
Last February, the White House and the State Department began investigating allies who received U.S. weapons in accordance with the requirements of National Security Memorandum 20, or NSM 20, to ensure compliance with related laws.
We investigate the use of weapons by countries supported by the United States, and if a country violates or blocks international humanitarian law or humanitarian aid, U.S. military aid may be suspended.
The countries currently under investigation are seven countries involved in various conflicts, including Israel. But especially in recent weeks, controversy has erupted within the State Department over the content of the report on Israel.
U.S. officials said the report would list a series of incidents that occurred during the war in Gaza and noted that they raised serious concerns about Israel’s violations of international law. The State Department is also expected to write that it is still investigating some of the incidents that occurred in Gaza, describing the situation in “highly critical terms.”
However, officials said that they would not conclude that Israel violated international law in relation to the National Security Memorandum.
It has been reported that the Department of State’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) recommended a conclusion that it violated the provisions of the National Security Memorandum. However, two officials told Axios that U.S. Ambassador to Israel Jack Lew and outgoing Gaza humanitarian envoy David Satterfield had sent Secretary Blinken a memo in recent weeks saying Israel was not violating international law in its war on Gaza. .
Lu and Satterfield wrote that Israel has limited humanitarian aid in the past and created obstacles for aid to reach the Gaza Strip. But they emphasized that President Biden had changed policy since April, when he issued an ultimatum to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, leading Secretary Blinken’s report to adopt Lew and Satterfield’s conclusions, the U.S. official said.
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