Days after Netanyahu promised to discuss and urge Biden to overturn these sanctions, and with threats from Israeli ministers such as the Israeli Finance Minister, who pledged to cut ties with the PA if these sanctions were imposed.
The Israeli "Netzah Yehuda Battalion," notorious for human rights abuses in the occupied West Bank, was involved in the killing of 78-year-old Palestinian-American Omar Assad. In 2022, Israeli soldiers tied him to a pole, bound and gagged, in the cold night, leading to his death from a heart attack.