The Kyl-Bingaman Amendment to the US National Defense Authorization Act, passed in 1996, prohibits the Department of Commerce from licensing the collection or dissemination by any commercial American operator of imagery of Israel and the Palestinian Territories at a resolution finer than that "routinely available from non-US commercial sources."
The cap, set in 1996 at 2-metre ground sample distance, is loosened only in 2018 to 0.4 m and again in 2020. For two decades it is effectively impossible for international media or aid organisations to publish high-resolution imagery of Gaza or the West Bank — the most consequential and durable example in the historical record of one nation's domestic statute reshaping what the rest of the world is allowed to see.