U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen calls for a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing to investigate the withholding or alteration of U.S. diplomatic reports concerning Israeli violations in the occupied West Bank.

This move follows a New York Times report that David Milstein, a senior aide to U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, intervened in drafting embassy reports or blocked their transmission to Washington.

The report noted that some of the documents addressed escalating settler violence, settlement expansion, and investigations into the killings of U.S. citizens of Palestinian or Turkish descent by settlers or Israeli forces.