The US doesn’t have any restrictions on weapons to Israel, the White House said, except for one paused bomb shipment.
Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's Prime Minister, arrives for a meeting in Jerusalem, Israel, on April 17, 2024.a Gaza ceasefire deal last week, Secretary of State Antony Blinken reportedly assured Benjamin Netanyahu that the U.S. was working “day and night” to remove restrictions on weapons shipments to Israel, the Israeli prime minister said in a statement Tuesday — despite the Biden administration denying that it is withholding weapons at all.
It’s unclear what there is left for the administration to review in terms of the 2,000-pound bombs. President Joe Bidenthat the administration would withhold certain 2,000-pound bombs from being sent to Israel if Israeli forces launched an invasion of Rafah, in southern Gaza. The administration has said that an invasion of Rafah — which was, for months, Palestinians’ last “safe place” in Gaza — is a “red line” that Israel must not cross.
But when Biden said that, Israel was already days into its invasion. U.S. officials clarified that they believed that Israel had only been in Rafah onthat only 65,000 Palestinians are left in Rafah, compared to 1.4 million who were sheltering there prior to May. This week,that they have taken over an estimated 60 to 70 percent of Rafah. As their tanks push further into the city, Israeli forces havejournalism is funded overwhelmingly by individual supporters.
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