Human Rights Watch: The Biden administration was giving weapons to Israel despite the crimes in Gaza

The human rights group’s 2025 World Report, published on Thursday, notes how the United States has suspended funding to UNRWA, the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, amid the Gaza famine crisis due to Israel’s blockade. .

According to Al Jazeera News channel, in the meantime, the Biden administration has provided an unprecedented $17.9 billion in security aid to Israel and approved more than 100 arms sales.

The report underscores the often overlooked fact that liberal democracies like the United States are not “always reliable champions of human rights” at home or abroad.

The report also raises concerns that US President-elect Donald Trump, who will be sworn in on January 20, will “do more damage to human rights” in his second term and that his victory will “inflame illiberal leaders around the world.” This gives them the courage to follow his solutions.”

The Human Rights Watch continued to emphasize that the actions of the Zionist army in the Gaza Strip are war crimes and inhumane crimes, and the US President Joe Biden’s government dealt with the crimes of the Zionist regime with a “one roof and two airs policy”.

According to the Palestine Information Center, in its 2025 international report issued on Thursday, the organization noted that the Zionist regime “imposed a siege and committed several illegal attacks that led to the forced displacement of Palestinians, and these actions in It is the limit of a war crime and a crime against humanity.”

Human Rights Watch pointed out that the Zionist regime is deliberately depriving Palestinians of access to water in order to save their lives, and that this is a crime against humanity and an act amounting to the crime of genocide, accusing Tel Aviv of deliberately attacking hospitals and homes. And he accused the workers of the distribution department of humanitarian aid, as well as the destruction of schools and refugee camps in Gaza.

“Tirana Hassan”, the CEO of Human Rights Watch, also criticized the positions of the Biden government regarding the Gaza war and accused it of adopting a “one roof and two airs policy” in dealing with human rights and said that the US government despite the widespread violations International law in Gaza continues to provide weapons to the Zionist regime, while condemning Russia for carrying out similar actions in Ukraine.

Hasan criticized a number of Western countries for continuing to provide weapons to Israel despite using them to commit crimes, particularly the United States and Germany, in violation of their international legal obligations and domestic laws.

He noted that “the new use of surveillance technologies, artificial intelligence and other digital tools on the battlefield will cause more harm to civilians and raise more questions about the accountability of the governments and technology companies involved.”

The document addresses human rights violations in the rest of the Palestinian territories occupied in 1967 and the killing of more than seven hundred Palestinians since the Gaza War, in addition to settler attacks, land confiscations, and more. It also addresses various laws imposed by the occupiers, including the ban on the activities of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). In this report, cases of human rights violations and aggression against Palestinians by the Palestinian Authority have been recorded, including arrests and even torture.

In its previous statement, this organization welcomed the announcement of the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip and said that “over the past 15 months, civilians have been attacked and subjected to unprecedented violence and killing in modern history.

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