Leahy | Israel news feed

While sometimes misunderstood as a measure that blocks U.S. military aid to foreign militaries implicated in gross human rights violations, the Leahy Law allows for 'remediation' if the government has taken all corrective steps to bring to justice those responsible for the violations

  The Biden administration has been pressing Israel to provide answers regarding a series of incidents in which, it claims, IDF units operating in Judea and Samaria violated the so-called "Leahy Law", a set of legal amendments that restrict the funding of military aid to units over human rights concerns, Israel Hayom has exclusively learned. […]