The Pentagon confirmed that the administration paused the delivery to Israel of a shipment of 1,800 two-thousand-pound bombs and 1,700 five-hundred-pound…
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has long pushed for an invasion of Rafah — Gaza's southernmost city where more than a million displaced Palestinians are sheltering — saying that it's essential to defeating Hamas and winning the war.
Numerous governments and humanitarian aid organizations including the United Nations and the WHO have warned of the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of an invasion in the overcrowded enclave that's already been ravaged by military strikes, disease and famine.
"A small diameter bomb, which is a precision weapon, that's very useful in a dense, built-up environment," he said,"but maybe not so much a 2,000-pound bomb that could create a lot of collateral damage." "Despite the Biden administration withholding critical munitions from Israel in order to force the delay or halt of Israel's Rafah operation, it's unlikely that these munitions were the integral weapon required for Israel's planned operation," Avi Melamed, a former Israeli intelligence official and regional analyst, said.
Others praised the move. Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont said that it must be a"first step."
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