BREAKING: Israel may have used US-supplied weapons in breach of international law in Gaza | BBC News

The US government has said Israel may have used American-supplied weapons in breach of international humanitarian law in its war in Gaza.

The State Department says it is "reasonable to assess" that US-supplied arms were used in ways "inconsistent" with Israel's obligations.

The report, ordered by the White House, was submitted to Congress on Friday. It says the US government doesn't have "complete information" to verify its assessment.

However it says that given Israel's significant reliance on US-made weapons "it is reasonable to assess" that they had been used since October 7 "in instances inconsistent with its IHL obligations or with established best practices for mitigating civilian harm".

Jane Hill presents News at Ten reporting by Tom Bateman in Washington.

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[gcw]

In other breaking news, water is wet, and fire is hot.

[MacrobianNomad]

Seven months into a war of destruction & devastation and the US just realised this 🤡

[cabbageswithcars]

the puppets on the bbc are nearly as good as sesame street

[PositiveGlows]

So did you guys think that they were accepting the “US weapons supplied” for their museum somewhere???

[sammydsouza]

Seriously? How dumb do you think we are? I amswitching to Al Jazeera

[TheJohnnyJohnny]

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[tylerdurden]

"May have used"? Where else do they get their bombs and weapons from? Lmfao 😂

[flyrodmike]

"May have used? May have used? May have used?" How much money does BBC allocate to investigative journalism and they can't definitively say whether Israel have or have not used weapons in war crimes? Who has the worst media in the world: UK or USA?

[carlosk]

The actual news isn't surprising to anyone.. What is surprising is the U.S is finally acknowledging it

[echoo]

I mean they’ve been doing that the whole time

[giman]

Hamas knew what they were doing on Oct 7th.

[sethuchiha]

This ain't " BREAKING NEWS " 😂😂😂

[wwgwga]

Absolutely nothing to see here unless you want to feel second hand embarrassment.

[zarinaabdulghani]

If US supplied weapons, would anyone think it would be stored in the storage building only. If it was not being used, how is it that more weapon supplies has to be replenished?

[Maj]

US State Department : Israel may have broken international law in Gaza
My Cat : No S*it

[Solo-Rosemarie]

This is laughable. People are NO LONGER stupid.

[fotodeci]

Germany, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan... Since when did the US start using its own weapons in accordance with international humanitarian law?

[Satchidanen]

The weapons were provided to put in a museum?

[Wraiths]

Do these people think we're stupid???😂😂😂😂

[sgeivvt]

BBC you are mocking your own newsreaders shame on you