The US has found five Israeli units guilty of gross human rights violations, the State Department said on Monday.

The State Department said it had confirmed "individual incidents of gross violations of human rights" against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank before the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on 7 October.

"After a careful process, we found five Israeli units responsible for individual incidents of gross violations of human rights. All of these were incidents much before October 7th and none took place in Gaza," State Department deputy spokesperson Vedant Patel said Monday.