The Biden administration paused a delivery of 2,000-pound bombs, but says weapons continue to flow to Israel.
The White House, State Department, and Pentagon say they do not know what Israel i Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was talking about when he said this week that Secretary of State Antony Blinken was working to remove 'bottlenecks' holding up weapons shipments to Israel . But one U.S. official offered an explanation for the Israel i leader's accusation.
They were about to leave an East coast weapons depot by ship when the delivery was halted. Israel doesn't need them for Gaza, but it would if the conflict in Lebanon escalates further.However, the official also said, 'The Israelis haven't come close to achieving their objective of destroying Hamas' in the war that began with Hamas' Oct. 7 massacre in southern Israel of over a thousand Israelis.
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