A U.S. official, speaking on the condition of anonymity under guidelines set by the administration, said the government closely tracks the incidents referred to the State Department and questions the Israeli government about them. Even when cases aren’t resolved, the official said, the investigations help to inform policy.

What fucking policy? The policy of it’s ok to kill kids as long as they’re brown and the money keeps rolling in?

It would be more surprising if they didn’t. “Please pinky promise you’ll only use this defensively” to one of the least trustworthy US ‘allies’ in existence is not much of a guarantee.