US Stops Weapon Shipment To Israel As It Carries Out "Dialed Back" Offensive On Hamas In Rafah
Israeli media reported that the military carried out a “larger but dialed back” operation in eastern Rafah so as not to jeopardize future hostage deal talks with the Hamas.
ISRAEL/GAZA - The United States has stopped a shipment of weapons to Jerusalem as the Israeli military carries out a major, but “dialed back” offensive on the Hamas terrorist organization within Rafah in Southern Gaza.
According to a senior Biden administration official, the decision to stop weapon shipments follows talks with Israel on how it will “operate differently against Hamas there than they have elsewhere in Gaza”.
U.S. officials have said that the Administration will not support a ground offensive within Rafah, where around 1.3 million Gazan civilians fled to after evacuating northern and central parts of the Gaza Strip in response to the ongoing war by Israel on the Hamas, a terrorist group that infiltrated Israel on October 7th of last year and took civilian hostages back with them into the Gaza Strip.
Israeli media reported that the military carried out a “larger but dialed back” operation in eastern Rafah so as not to jeopardize future hostage deal talks with the Hamas terrorist organization and to give more time for negotiations with the group on releasing the remaining hostages.
On May 7th, IDF Spokesman Daniel Hagari said, “IDF forces under the leadership of Division 162 began tonight with the intelligence guidance of the Shin Bet and Amman in targeted activity and in limited areas in East Rafah against terrorist infrastructures of the terrorist organization Hamas”.
Decision To Stop Weapon Shipments To Israel Executed Last Week After Israel Did Not Fully Address Concerns By Biden Administration
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