PNN – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday night in response to the news of the US sanctioning a battalion of the Zionist army: The Israeli army should not be sanctioned and we will use all means to oppose these measures.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, citing Al Jazeera Qatar network, Bezalel Smutrich, the hard-line finance minister of Netanyahu’s cabinet, also responded to this possible action by Washington and added: The US sanctions against the Israeli army are absolute madness.
He added: This action by Washington is also an attempt to dominate the Palestinian government over us.
On Saturday night, Axios news website quoted three American officials who did not reveal their names and said: Washington will soon sanction the “Netza Yehuda” battalion affiliated with the Zionist regime army for violating human rights in the West Bank.
Axios added that this is the first time that the United States has sanctioned an Israeli military unit, and the sanctioning of this (extremist) battalion will soon be announced by the US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken.
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This American news site, quoting the sources it called knowledgeable, added: Sanctions prevent this battalion and its members from receiving any kind of aid or military training.
The Netza Yehuda Battalion was formed in 1999 as a special unit for ultra-Orthodox Jewish soldiers.
Axios added that the battalion, based in the West Bank, “has become a center of attraction for many young far-right settlers” who have not been accepted into any other IDF battalion.
In the past years, many pictures of the crimes of Netza Yehuda battalion soldiers against Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank have been published.
Last year, during the raid of the 97th Netza Yehuda Battalion affiliated with the Israeli regime army to the Talonim area located west of Ramallah, the soldiers belonging to this battalion, who thought that no one saw them, severely assaulted and insulted several Palestinian civilians; Unaware that a number of other Palestinians are observing and recording this brutality of the Israeli army.
Earlier, a group of Democratic representatives of the US Congress rejected US President Joe Biden’s claim that the Zionist regime does not violate international laws and emphasized that Israel violates the laws with American weapons.