US to resume shipment of heavy bombs to Israel despite rising civilian deaths

from PressTV

The administration of US President Joe Biden is set to resume shipping heavy bombs to the Israeli regime in defiance of international calls against the move, in line with Washington’s untrammeled support for the occupying entity in its months-long genocidal war on Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip.

Speaking on condition of anonymity on Wednesday, a US official said Washington would resume shipping 500-pound bombs to Israel. The official added, however, that the US would continue to hold back on supplying 2,000-pound bombs over what he claimed to be “concerns” about their use in the densely populated city of Rafah in southern Gaza.

“We’ve been clear that our concern has been on the end-use of the 2,000-lb bombs, particularly for Israel’s Rafah campaign which they have announced they are concluding,” the official said.

“Our main concern had been and remains the potential use of 2,000 lb bombs in Rafah and elsewhere in Gaza ... because our concern was not about the 500 lb bombs, those are moving forward as part of the usual process,” the official added.

The US media also confirmed that the shipment of 500-pound bombs to Israel is getting underway...

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