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US says no sanctions against Israeli military unit in death of Palestinian-American

Omar Assad, 78, a grocer in the US, was visiting the West Bank in January 2022 when he died after being detained by an Israeli army unit
US State Department says it's enough that the Israeli military had taken action and that two soldiers involved in the incident have left the service
The Israeli army concluded that Assad’s death was the result of “a moral failure and poor decision-making on the part of the soldiers”

By AFP · 10 August 2024