Five Israeli military units responsible for gross violations of human rights : US

The United States has concluded that five Israeli military units committed serious human rights violations against Palestinians in the West Bank before the Hamas attack in October, the State Department said Monday.

Four of these units have taken remedial measures, State Department deputy spokesman Vedant Patel told reporters, with consultations under way with the Israeli government over the fifth unit.

“After a careful process, we found five Israeli units responsible for individual incidents of gross violations of human rights,” Patel said.

All of this behavior took place before the October 7 Hamas attack and it was not in Gaza, he added.

Patel declined to identify the units or say what measures the Israeli government had taken against them.

Press reports have identified a battalion called the Netzah Yehuda, composed mainly of ultra-Orthodox Jews, as being accused of abuses.