Some in State Department don’t believe Israel is using US weapons in accordance with international law, source says | CNN Politics
Some in State Department don’t believe Israel is using US weapons in accordance with international law, source says | CNN Politics
Some parts of the US State Department do not find Israel’s assurances that its forces are using US weapons in accordance with international law to be “credible and reliable,” a department official said Sunday.
The State Department is divided over whether Israel is using American-provided weapons in accordance with international law ahead of a fast-approaching deadline next week for Secretary of State Antony Blinken to make a determination to Congress.
There is not unanimity about whether to accept Israel’s assurances about this as “credible and reliable,” a department official said. Israel was required to make those assurances to the US under a national security memorandum issued by President Joe Biden in February.
The memorandum requires all countries receiving US weapons to make assurances that they are using them “in a manner consistent with all applicable international and domestic law and policy, including international humanitarian law and international human rights law.”
Under that memorandum, Blinken must tell Congress by May 8 whether he has certified the assurances to be credible and reliable.
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It must have come as a real shock to the Israelis to learn that someone in the state department knows what international law is.