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Joint Letter to President Biden Urging Suspension of Arms Transfers to Israel

Human Rights Watch | Defending Human Rights Worldwide
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U.S. arms have been used in attacks that have killed and maimed civilians and likely violated international humanitarian law, authors say.

They say the administration's arming of the Israeli government has been and continues to be shockingly out of step with the realities of civilian harm and suffering in Gaza .

Amnesty International concluded that US -made GBU-39 guided bombs killed at least 36 people including six children and injured more than 100 on May 26 in two Israel air strikes on a camp for internally displaced people in Tal al-Sultan in west Rafah .

CNN reported that a July 13 airstrike in al-Mawasi killed more than 90 Palestinians and injured at least 300 more using a Boeing -manufactured Joint Direct Attack Munition from the United States .

Amnesty International warned on July 23 “that the U.S. is on notice of the government of Israel ’s unlawful use of U.-origin weapons, including in war crimes, and will be complicit in further violations committed with.

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