The U.S. State Department’s newly released and much shorter country reports on human rights practices in 2024 differ from those released last year by the Biden administration covering 2023, including the nearly three months after Oct. 7, in dramatic ways when it comes to Israel, the “West Bank” and the Gaza Strip.

Last year, the State Department noted that “human rights groups reported extensive and in many cases unprecedented conflict-related abuses, and alleged the commission of war crimes, by Israel, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and other Palestinian militant groups.”

It added that “some human rights organizations and the government,” meaning the Israeli government, “described the Oct. 7 attacks as war crimes and crimes against humanity.”

The Trump administration State Department

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