America sanctions a battalion of the Israel regime

According to the policy group of the Anna Science and Technology News Agency, the “Axios” website, quoting three well-informed American sources, reported that the US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, within the next few days, will impose sanctions against the “Nitzah Yehuda” battalion affiliated with the Israel regime army. to announce the reason for the violation of human rights in the West Bank. Axios says this is significant because it is the first time the United States has imposed sanctions on an Israeli army unit.

According to the sources, the sanctions prohibit the Israeli army battalion and its members from receiving any military aid or military training from the United States.

Yesterday, the Associated Press news agency reported the martyrdom of at least 9 people, including 6 children, in the Israel air attack on Rafah. According to the 1997 law by Patrick Leahy, US foreign aid and training programs of the US Department of Defense are not available to security, military and police forces that commit human rights abuses.

Last Thursday, the media reported that the US State Department's special panel investigating human rights violations related to the Leahy Act had recommended months ago that Blinken bar several Israeli military and police units operating in the West Bank from receiving military aid. deprive

An American official has said that Blinken's decision regarding the Nitsah Yehuda Battalion was based on the events before Hamas' October 7th operation, all of which took place in the West Bank.

Nitsah Yehuda was formed as an all-male special unit of ultra-Orthodox soldiers. Soldiers of this battalion from the Israel army commit violence against Palestinian civilians in the West Bank.

In one of the above-mentioned battalion violence, an 80-year-old Palestinian-American named Omar Asad died in January 2022.