Tel Aviv — Israeli leaders have lashed out at the prospect of the Biden administration sanctioning one of the Jewish state's army battalions over accusations that it's committed human rights abuses in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. According to a report by Axios, sanctions against the Israeli army's ultra-Orthodox Netzah Yehuda battalion could be announced in the coming days.
sanctioning its long-time ally has turned the spotlight on the IDF as Netanyahu and his military continue dealing with a domestic backlash for failing to thwart Hamas' bloody Oct. 7 terror attack, which sparked the war in Gaza.In the first top-level fallout from that failure, the IDF announced that the head of Israel's military intelligence agency, Major General Aharon Haliva, would be resigning as soon a successor was appointed. Haliva said last year, not long after Oct.