U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the end of the Group of Seven foreign ministers meeting, on Capri, Italy, on Friday. CAPRI, Italy — Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday he has made “determinations” related to a set of accusations that Israel violated U.S. laws prohibiting the provision of military assistance to policy or security units that commit gross violations of human rights.
Current and former U.S. officials have also told The Washington Post that several Israeli units including border police and special forces have come under scrutiny in the package awaiting Blinken’s decision. He had been tightly bound and blindfolded, found with abrasions on his wrists and bleeding on the insides of his eyelids, the medical exam said. According to details of an Israel Defense Forces probe leaked to Israeli media, soldiers and officers at the scene told investigators they had gagged Assad and forcibly marched him to the construction site because they didn’t want his shouting to alert others to the presence of the checkpoint.
Rights groups say that the abuse of Palestinians in custody is commonplace, and that tactics used during urban raids frequently contravene international humanitarian law. Israel’s police and army“It's one that we apply across the board. And when we're doing these investigations, these inquiries, it's something that takes time. That has to be done very carefully, both in collecting the facts and analyzing them,” he said. “And that's exactly what we've done.