{"id":26991,"date":"2024-05-08T06:22:41","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T11:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=26991"},"modified":"2024-05-08T06:22:49","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T11:22:49","slug":"us-media-us-suspends-delivery-of-weapons-including-aerial-bombs-to-israel-due-to-operation-rafah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=26991","title":{"rendered":"US media: US suspends delivery of weapons, including aerial bombs, to Israel due to Operation Rafah"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>The U.S. digital news website Axios reported, citing a senior U.S. official, that the U.S. last week suspended weapons supplies to Israel, including various types of aerial bombs, including the Mk-82 and Mk- 84 aerial bombs.<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Earlier, the website reported, citing several unnamed Israeli officials, that the United States had suspended ammunition shipments to Israel for the first time since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">An official told Axios that the United States discussed Israel&#8217;s actions in Rafah last week. He believes that as Israeli leaders were about to make a decision on the Rafah operation, the White House began to &#8220;carefully review&#8221; providing Israel with specific weapons for possible use in Rafah in April. As a result of the review, the White House last week suspended a shipment of weapons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">A U.S. official told the website: &#8220;The Biden administration is particularly concerned about the end use of Mk-84 aerial bombs in Rafah because of the devastating impact they could have on&#8230;the urban environment.&#8221; He emphasized that the United States has not yet made a decision on this batch of weapons. final decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The official also pointed out that these supplies have nothing to do with the additional funding for Israel passed in April. &#8220;All of these (supplies) are using funds that were allocated a few years ago,&#8221; he told Axios.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The U.S. official also said that the U.S. State Department is considering more arms deals with Israel, including the provision of Joint Guided Attack Weapons (JDAM) that can transform &#8220;unguided bombs&#8221; into precision-guided weapons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The U.S. Congress voted last month to provide more than $20 billion in additional&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.cn\/20240504\/1058794514.html\">military aid<\/a>&nbsp;to Israel .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.cn\/20240508\/1058882994.html\">sputniknews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. digital news website Axios reported, citing a senior U.S. official, that the U.S. last week suspended weapons supplies to Israel, including various types of aerial bombs, including the Mk-82 and Mk- 84 aerial bombs. Earlier, the website reported, citing several unnamed Israeli officials, that the United States had suspended ammunition shipments to Israel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":26992,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1153],"tags":[28290,3906,1239,27335,27334,3637,21056,1852],"class_list":["post-26991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-military","tag-air-bombs","tag-delivery","tag-israel","tag-operation","tag-rafah","tag-suspension","tag-usa","tag-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26993,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26991\/revisions\/26993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}