Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other ministers have strongly criticized the reported intentions of the Biden administration to impose sanctions on a unit of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) for alleged human rights violations in the occupied West Bank. The alleged abuses are said to have involved members of the Netzah Yehuda battalion in the region and are reported to have occurred before Hamas' attack on Israel on October 7.
Netanyahu expressed his disapproval over the proposed sanctions, stating, 'Sanctions must not be imposed on the Israel Defense Forces! At a time when our soldiers are combating the terrors of terrorism, the idea of sanctioning an IDF unit is utterly absurd and morally reprehensible.'
