U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is expected to within days announce sanctions against the Israel Defense Forces “Netzah Yehuda” battalion for human rights violations in the occupied West Bank, three U.S. sources with knowledge of the issue told Axios.
Why it matters: It would be the first time the U.S. imposed sanctions on an Israeli military unit.
A U.S. official said Blinken’s determination about the Netzah Yehuda unit is based on incidents that occurred before the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel and all took place in the West Bank.
Flashback: The Netzah Yehuda battalion was formed as a special unit for ultra-orthodox soldiers. All of its members are men.
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Over the years, the unit stationed in the West Bank became a destination for many “Hilltop Youth” — young radical right wing settlers who weren’t accepted into any other combat unit in the IDF.
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The U.S. State Department started investigating the Netzah Yehuda battalion in late 2022 after its soldiers were involved in several incidents of violence against Palestinian civilians, Haaretz reported at the time.
Sanction all the settlers. They’re breaking international law and are openly trying to make peace impossible. Some of them are literal terrorists. They should be treated the same as Hamas.
Great news it looks like it takes about 2 years for America to finish “investigating” israeli war crimes. So it looks like they will find out about the Genocide of Gaza in 2026.
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Only if Biden is Re-elected. Otherwise the Gaza genocide will disappear from the executive branch until at least 2028, and even longer if this shit heel country keeps electing republicans.
Gonna X doubt that one.
Which part?
Bruh look at his comment history, dude is either a troll or has been sucking on them right winger fumes
The part where Biden will do anything significant against israel.
My top comment is just a meme. It clearly doesn’t take two years to conclude that israel is committing war crimes and the delusion that Biden will do it in two years is top cope.
Serious mixed feelings on this one. On the one hand, this represents a major shift in U.S. policy. On the other hand, JFC, too little, too late. We should be sending the Navy to escort and protect the Gaza aid flotilla. (We know what the terrorists did to the last one in 2010.)
Took y’all a long time to sanction just four settlers, and even that you walked back. I’m not holding my breath.
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