The US has provided massive military aid to Israel in the past. It intensified even after the attack Hamasuz on October 7 last year, in which approximately 1,200 people in Israel were killed and approximately 250 were taken prisoner by Palestinian fighters. According to the official, who wished to remain anonymous, the shipment was to contain 1,800 900-kilogram bombs and 1,700 225-kilogram bombs.
“The transport of military aid is suspended the most striking manifestation of the growing discord between the government Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the administration of President Joe Biden, which has called on Israel to make much greater efforts to protect the lives of innocent civilians in the Gaza Strip,” the AP notes.
White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre she refused to explainhow to reconcile the suspension of arms supplies with President Biden's rhetoric supporting Israel. She only stated: “Two things can be true“.
War in Israel. Activities around Rafah
Meanwhile, over a million Palestinian civilians are seeking refuge in Rafah following the evacuation of other parts of the Gaza Strip in the aftermath Israel's war with Hamas. On Tuesday Israeli troops took control of the important border crossing in Rafah in the Gaza Strip in what the White House described as a limited operation, not a full invasion of the city. Biden has warned repeatedly before this for humanitarian reasons.
Israel ordered the evacuation of 100,000 people. Palestinians from the city. Israeli forces also carried out what they call “targeted attacks” in eastern Rafah and captured a border crossing – a critical channel for the flow of humanitarian aid on Gaza's border with Egypt.
Spokesman National Security Council White House Secretary John Kirby said Israel had described operations along the Gaza-Egypt border in eastern Rafah as “an operation of limited scale and duration” in order to cut off weapons smuggling through Hamas. As he emphasized, The United States will monitor the course of the fighting.
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