US report on Israeli human rights violations 94 pages shorter than last year

The US's annual report on Israeli human rights abuses comes in at only nine pages, 94 pages shorter than the report on the same topic last year, The Intercept reported on Wednesday. 

Josh Paul, the former director of congressional and public affairs at the State Department bureau who resigned in 2023 over US military assistance to Israel in the war on Gaza, told The Intercept, “Its coverage of Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza appears to have been written by someone who has been blindfolded, earmuffed, had a sock stuffed in their mouth, and then censored.”

The report was one of 200 human rights reports that the State Department released on Tuesday.

Paul said the report could be summarised "in just a few more words than it appears to be written in: few truths, many half truths, and nothing like the truth”.

The congressionally mandated human rights reports normally guide US policy decisions on diplomacy.

The report on Israel does not mention the ongoing genocide case against Israel at the International Criminal Court.