{"id":1312085,"date":"2023-11-03T19:15:17","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T19:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2023\/nov\/03\/israel-aid-democrats-leahy-act-congress"},"modified":"2023-11-03T21:19:59","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T21:19:59","slug":"leftist-democrats-invoke-human-rights-law-in-scrutiny-of-israel-military-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/11\/03\/leftist-democrats-invoke-human-rights-law-in-scrutiny-of-israel-military-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"Leftist Democrats invoke human rights law in scrutiny of Israel military aid"},"content":{"rendered":"

Congressional progressives say proposed $14.3bn breaches 1997 Leahy act as assault on Gaza has overwhelmingly harmed civilians<\/p>

Leftwing Democrats in Congress have invoked a landmark law barring assistance to security forces of governments deemed guilty of human rights abuses to challenge the Biden administration\u2019s emergency military aid program for Israel.<\/p>

Members of the Democratic party\u2019s progressive wing say the $14.3bn package pledged by the White House after the 7 October attack by Hamas that killed more than 1,400 Israelis breaches the Leahy Act because Israel\u2019s retaliatory assault on Gaza has overwhelmingly harmed civilians. An estimated 9,000 people have been killed in Gaza so far, among them 3,700 children, according to the Gaza health ministry, run by Hamas.<\/p> Continue reading...<\/a>\n

This post was originally published on Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Congressional progressives say proposed $14.3bn breaches 1997 Leahy act as assault on Gaza has overwhelmingly harmed civiliansLeftwing Democrats in Congress have invoked a landmark law barring assistance to security forces of governments deemed guilty …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30279,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4704,3387,133,287,7260,6,82,70058,1258,2019,56,57,1315,1329,3491,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312085"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1312085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1312171,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312085\/revisions\/1312171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1312085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1312085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1312085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}