According toThe Washington Post, the US has received nearly 500 reports of civilians being harmed
The Biden administration has been flooded with nearly 500 reports of US weapons being used by Israel to kill civilians unnecessarily, but no action has been taken, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday.
By refusing to act, the State Department is in violation of its policy that was started in August 2023 as a response to concerns over US weapons being used by Saudi Arabia and the UAE to kill civilians in Yemen. The policy, known as the Civilian Harm Incident Response Guidance (CHIRG) process, directs US officials to investigate incidents and recommend action within two months.
According to the Post report, not a single of the nearly 500 reports have reached the “action” stage. US officials have said the CHIRG process has become functionally irrelevant because senior officials in the State Department are dismissive of any non-Israeli source.
Mike Casey, a former State Department official who resigned in July, said senior State Department officials often dismissed the credibility of Palestinian sources, eyewitness accounts, nongovernmental organizations, the Palestinian Authority, and the United Nations.
Sources told the Post that at least one-quarter of the cases had been dismissed in the first of three investigative stages because they were deemed not credible or officials thought US weapons weren’t used. The rest of the cases have reached the “verification stage,” but that has only involved asking Israel about the cases, giving the Israeli government the chance to make excuses for its own crimes.
🔗SOURCE ➡️ Antiwar.com
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