The move would mark the first time in the decades-long partnership between the two countries that a U.S. administration has invoked a landmark 27-year-old congressional act known as the Leahy law against an Israeli military unit.
The law requires an automatic cutoff of aid to a military unit if the State Department finds credible evidence that it has committed gross abuses. A second Leahy law says the same for Defense Department training of foreign militaries.
Anti-Israel groups have been pressuring the Biden administration to take action against Israeli military units for alleged abuses as they go into the West Bank to deal with terrorist activity.
Israel says its security forces investigate abuses and its courts hold offenders accountable.
