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US Senate blocks resolution demanding accountability over Israeli violence in West Bank
The Guardian World · Leans Left
Nine American citizens have been killed by Israeli settlers or security forces in occupied West Bank since 2022
The US Senate on Tuesday evening rejected along mostly party lines a Democratic resolution that would have forced the state department to report to Congress on violence in the occupied West Bank, including the killings of nine American citizens by Israeli settlers or security forces over the last few years.
The resolution, led by the Maryland Democrat Chris Van Hollen, would have given the state department 30 days to report to Congress on those deaths and on wider human rights conditions in the territory, including Israel’s detention of Palestinian children.
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