The official spokesman for the US State Department, Matthew Miller, said on Monday that the United States considers Israel to be committed to US President Joe Biden’s national security memorandum, which stipulates that recipients of US weapons must comply with international law, and may not prevent the provision of humanitarian assistance.

Miller said that Israel is obligated to provide written guarantees by Sunday through a “credible high-level official who has the capacity and authority to make decisions and commitments on the issues that constitute the core of the guarantees.”

The Biden administration had sent a memorandum on February 8, asking Israel and six other countries to provide written guarantees by March 24 confirming their commitment to American conditions. The US State Department now has until May 8 to provide Congress with a report on Israel’s compliance with these conditions.

The seven countries that the US administration asked for written guarantees are: Israel, Kenya, Colombia, Iraq, Somalia, Nigeria and Ukraine.

Miller continued: "These guarantees are possible, but our view on them is of course based on our ongoing assessments of Israel's behavior in the war in Gaza."

"We have conducted ongoing assessments of Israel's compliance with international humanitarian law. We have not found that it is in violation, whether with regard to the conduct of the war or the provision of humanitarian assistance. We look at those assurances through this ongoing work," he added. "We have done that," he added.

Dozens of Democrats in Congress, along with several leading international NGOs, have warned that Israel is not adhering to the memorandum (sent on February 8). Likewise, senior State Department and USAID officials insisted that Israeli guarantees failed to take into account facts on the ground.

“When it comes to finding a violation of international humanitarian law, it requires a fact-intensive analysis of the relevant factors related to international humanitarian law,” Miller noted.

He said, "We have ongoing processes to look into these matters, and these are the processes that began before President (Joe Biden) signed this memorandum, but so far, we have not reached a conclusion that Israel is violating international humanitarian law."

The memorandum represents a number of first steps - including credible, written assurances from countries in advance of arms transfers, as well as assurances that they will not deny or restrict assistance efforts in conflict areas where weapons supplied (sold) by the United States to those countries are being used, to ensure that Violation of human rights with American weapons.

It is noteworthy that the memorandum did not contain within it any mechanism to implement its provisions or hold accountable countries that violate American, international, or humanitarian law - or are used in ways that are inconsistent with mitigating the harm caused to civilians.