State Department Denies It Accused IDF of Sexually Abusing Palestinians

The State Department denied that one of its officials accused the Israel Defense Forces of sexually abusing Palestinian women, disputing an Israeli general’s characterization of a meeting this past weekend.

Yesterday, Amir Avivi, a retired Israeli brigadier general, told Israel’s 103FM radio station that the State Department official who oversees U.S. policy toward Israel made that claim. “It was a meeting that shook me,” he said, without naming the U.S. official or specifying where the meeting took place.