The US is expected to block aid to an Israeli military unit. What is Leahy law that it would cite?

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER
Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — Israel expects its top ally, the United States, to announce that it’s blocking military aid to an Israeli army unit over gross human rights abuses in the Israeli-occupied West Bank before the war in Gaza began six months ago. The move would mark the first time that a U.S. administration has invoked a 27-year-old congressional act known as the Leahy law against an Israeli military unit. The Leahy law was a landmark in holding U.S.-allied foreign militaries accountable when it passed Congress in 1997. Israel says its security forces investigate abuses and its courts hold offenders accountable.