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Biden administration says Israel is not violating U.S. weapons terms
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While Israel provided some information “on request” about specific incidents related to targeting decisions and battled damage assessments, more details are needed, the report said.
The U.S. believes the assurances given by Israel are reliable and credible, a senior State Department official told NBC News on Friday, but said the administration’s assessment of its compliance with international humanitarian law is ongoing.
The document, obtained by NBC News, blasts the State Department’s findings as “yet another unnecessary report meant to appease Democrats anti-Semitic base.”
Sen. Jim Risch of Idaho, the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said the Biden administration “has given Israel a politically damaging assessment” and that the president aimed to “placate voters on the far left at the expense of a close ally in the midst of its justified war with Hamas terrorists.”
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, separately said the report “serves no purpose other than to provide political cover to the president with his base.”
Senior administration officials previously told NBC News that the U.S. halted a large shipment of offensive weapons to Israel last week over fears that they would be used to invade Rafah, a city in southern Gaza where more than 1 million people are sheltering.
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