Saturday, May 11, 2024

US weapons worth billions set aside for Israel despite Biden threat

from Daily Sabah

Despite President Joe Biden's recent warning, the U.S. has billions of dollars worth of weaponry in the pipeline for Israel.

A senior U.S. official said this week that the administration had reviewed the delivery of weapons that Israel might use for a major invasion of Rafah, a southern Gaza city where over 1 million civilians have sought refuge, and as a result paused a shipment of bombs to Israel.

Washington has long urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government not to invade Rafah without safeguards for civilians, seven months into a war that has devastated Gaza.

Congressional aides estimated the delayed bomb shipment's value as "tens of millions" of U.S. dollars...

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