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“They make pretty clear that they don’t have the legal authority to determine intentionality,” a Foggy Bottom spokesman said.
“Israel will not cower to terror,” the Israeli mission to the United Nations in Manhattan stated. “We will not be silent in the face of hate and violence.”
“It’s our intent to take this report, its recommendations, and act,” Speaker of the House Mike Johnson stated.
“It won’t be complete, but we’ll be able to hand it over, and then the next administration can decide how it wants to proceed,” the U.S. secretary of state told “MSNBC.”
Washington “will continue to hold accountable those who seek to enable the Houthis’ destabilizing activities,” said Bradley Smith, of the U.S. Treasury.
“No individual deserves to be at the receiving end of these types of threats or to be targeted because of their religion,” said the acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.
“Israel, of course, as we’ve long said, has every right to its self-defense and its security,” a U.S. State Department spokesman said.
“President Biden’s decision earlier this month to pardon his son may well have set a unique and unfortunate precedent,” the Kentucky senator said on the Senate floor.
“When the one-on-one meetings did take place, they were more typically virtual meetings, not in-person,” per the report.
“We have a responsibility as a community to be unified against antisemitism, hatred, bigotry in all forms,” said Josh Shapiro.
“As we gather here tonight, extensive efforts are being made to bring about a new hostage deal,” said Michael Herzog, the Israeli envoy in Washington.
“The FBI has taken steps to assure this does not happen again,” a spokesperson for the agency said.
