(JNS) – The Biden administration has halted a shipment of U.S.-made ammunition to Israel, Axios reported on Sunday, citing two officials in Jerusalem.
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According to the U.S. news outlet, last week’s decision to place the shipment on hold left the Israeli government concerned, as it is the first time since Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre that the U.S. has halted military aid to the Israel Defense Forces.
The White House reportedly declined to comment, while the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. State Department and the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office didn’t immediately respond to questions from Axios.
An unnamed Israeli official downplayed the report, telling the Israeli news website Ynet that “the flow continues” and Jerusalem was “not aware of a policy decision to stop it.”
“Even now, a continued series of defense shipments are being sent from the U.S. to Israel,” the official stated, while acknowledging that “one shipment or another may be delayed.”
In March, a senior Israeli official told ABC News that Washington had begun slow-walking military aid. According to the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, shipments at the beginning of the war were coming “very fast,” but Jerusalem is “now finding that it’s very slow.”
The official said he was not sure what the cause was, but that Jerusalem was aware of President Joe Biden’s frustration with the conflict and his demand that Israel do more to provide humanitarian supplies to Gaza.
The reports of delays in U.S. arms shipments come as the Israel Defense Forces are making final preparations for a ground operation in Rafah, the last Hamas stronghold located in the southern part of the Strip.
Many of the 132 hostages still in the hands of Hamas more than 200 days after the Oct. 7 massacre are believed to be held in Rafah. Israeli special forces rescued two captives from the city earlier this year.
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said on Sunday that Jerusalem is seeing “worrying signs” that Hamas has no intention of agreeing to any hostages-for-ceasefire-and-terrorists-release deal and the IDF is edging closer to military action “in Rafah and the entire Strip in the near future.”
During a Cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on Sunday, Gallant said the IDF offensive in Rafah, where the remaining four Hamas terrorist battalions are located, is expected to take place “very soon.”
Biden has repeatedly told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he would not support a major offensive against the terrorist group in Rafah. Instead, the White House favors a limited operation aimed at attacking high-value Hamas targets and securing the Gaza-Egypt border.
Biden would consider limiting “certain arms sales” if Israel launches a major assault in the city, The New York Times reported late last month.
At least 10 people were wounded, one seriously, on Sunday afternoon when Hamas terrorists in Rafah fired 14 rockets and mortars toward Kibbutz Kerem Shalom in southern Israel. Several rockets exploded near an IDF military facility, causing the casualties.
So where the shomer yisroel the highest ranking senator and Jew
No where as usual
We Jews can RELY on no one except our father in heaven.
Obama did the same thing during the 2014 war, all to pressure Israel to surrender to hamas.
A liar, a wimp, and a turncoat. Efim
Unfortunately there are frum Jews and Rabbonim who support Biden and say that while he may say that he doesn’t support Israel he does through his actions. What will these blind people come up with next. Biden is a coward who has sold out Israel, and the Jews of America for that matter too. First with his rhetoric and now in action.
This is a man who is weak as water. Weak as water!
Ayatollah Joe has gotta go. America needs their presidential elections now. It’s too time to change the government. Bring Trump back and everything gets better for everyone not just us if you voted for Biden you must have been dead I know my dad was
Really disgusting!
Your only ally you sell down the tube fir your precious oil.
May you choke on it
And yet the wealthy real estate owner talking heads at the aguda will still tell us why we should vote for democrats like Biden Schumer and nadler
I honestly know that Biden is the snake, he is playing us, remember the money he gets are from all the Jewish business taxes and should be used for that, he does not have authority over Israel’s actions and motives, are the Jewish Americans been informed of where their tax goes to, even I as South African can see. We all know his constant support of Palestinians/Hamas his family in Cape Town run the Palestinians against Israel. His daughter in law is very much active against Jews. Someone is funding them? Someone should look at his financials. But American businesses should be made aware of how their tax go. I am not much of a writer but being outside looking in I see what is being missed
so much for “we will always having israels back” . Guess he meant we will STAB THEM IN THE BACK. TRUMP was right all along, when he said no jew in his right mind who supports the right of jews to live and protect themselves, should vote for biden (democrat)
aside from all the other reasons the USA went down hill biden entered office economy,inflation, his being incapable of the job due to his age,HIS visibly impaired state and recognizable infirmities we need to daven harder. weve seen open miracles .we hope and pray to hashem to protect his children and all am yisroel where ever they fin themselves