Blinken denies US has double standard over alleged Israeli rights abuses

WASHINGTON - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on April 22 rejected suggestions that Washington might have a “double standard” when applying US law to allegations of abuses by the Israeli military in Gaza and said that examinations of such charges are ongoing.

“When it comes to allegations of incidents or whether it’s violations of international humanitarian law, rights abuses...we have processes within the department that are looking at that incidents that have been raised. Those processes are ongoing,” he said.Israel’s military conduct has come under increasing scrutiny as its forces have killed 34,000 Palestinians in besieged Gaza, according to the enclave’s health authorities, many of them civilians and children.

“With adversaries like Russia, there is a policy demand to make quasi-legal, public determinations about atrocity crimes. With partners like Israel, there is the opposite policy demand to avoid reaching any inconvenient legal conclusions,” said Mr Finucane, who formerly was a State Department lawyer.

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