President Biden has warned Binyamin Netanyahu that he’ll halt provides of heavy bombs and artillery shells if Israel goes forward with a army invasion of the Gazan metropolis of Rafah, declaring: “I’m not offering the weapons.”
Biden confirmed that he had already ordered the delay of a cargo of greater than 3,000 bombs to Israel final week over issues that the weapons can be used in opposition to civilians within the southern metropolis, the place greater than one million residents have sought shelter.
“Civilians have been killed in Gaza as a consequence of these bombs,” he mentioned when requested concerning the American-made weapons. “I made it clear that in the event that they go into Rafah … I’m not offering the weapons,” he added in an interview with CNN.
An Israeli bomb hit a home in Rafah on Wednesday
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