A recent report from the Washington Post has found that the U.S. has quietly approved and delivered thousands of weapons to Israel since Oct. 7.
On Thursday, during his State of the Union address, President Joe Biden announced a U.S. military operation to deploy a temporary port off the coast of Gaza as part of an international push to open a sea route delivering food and other aid to desperate Palestinian civilians cut off by the Hamas-Israel war and by Israeli restrictions on humanitarian access by land.
"Given the urgency of Israel’s defensive needs, the secretary notified Congress that he had exercised his delegated authority to determine an emergency existed, necessitating the immediate approval of the transfer," the State Department said.This move landed Biden’s administration in hot water, with many U.S. lawmakers continually hesitant to back Israel’s tactics in their efforts to defeat Hamas. Tactics that Biden has previously called "over the top.
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