The US is considering sanctions against Israel’s extremist battalion, Netzah Yehuda, after a State Department panel recommended that Washington restrict arms sales to Israeli military units over credible accusations of human rights abuses.

That as the US lawmakers have recently approved a new multi-billion dollar aid for the regime amid its genocidal killing of the Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank.

The male-only Netzah Yehuda was formed in 1999 as a special unit for ultra-Orthodox Jewish soldiers with some 1,000 soldiers serving in the unit, according to the battalion’s website.

The State Department started investigating Netzah Yehuda over the death in custody of 80-year-old Palestinian-American Omar Assad in 2022.

The battalion is stationed in the occupied West Bank which has been the scene of Israeli violent raids on Nur Shams refugee camp since Thursday night killing at least 14 and injuring several more.

The announcement comes as the US lawmakers have approved 26 billion-dollar aid for Israeli regime amid over six  months of killing campaign in Gaza leaving more than 34,000 Palestinians dead, most of them women and children.