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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Jem Bartholomew

First Thing: US violating law by funding Israel despite alleged human rights abuses, lawsuit says

Injured childrenaza, 21 October 2024.
Children injured during an Israeli strike on the Jabaliya refugee camp, Gaza, 21 October 2024. Photograph: Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP/Getty Images

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The US state department is facing a new lawsuit – brought by Palestinians and Palestinian Americans – accusing it of deliberately circumventing a decades-old human rights law by continuing to fund Israeli military units accused of widespread atrocities in the occupied Palestinian territories.

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