The US is expected to blacklist a controversial Israeli military unit for alleged human rights abuses against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, in its first sanctions against the Israel Defense Forces.
The sanctions would ban the transfer of US military weaponry or any other forms of assistance to the Netzah Yehuda battalion, an all-male IDF infantry unit made up of ultra-Orthodox and religious nationalist Jewish recruits, according to people familiar with the matter. It would be the first time the US has targeted a unit of the IDF directly.
Israeli leaders from across the political spectrum reacted angrily to reports of the sanctions on Sunday, which were first reported by Axios.
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