Despite increasing numbers of civilian casualties and transgressions of international law, the US is arming Israel for its operations in the Gaza Strip.
In addition to being the most significant political supporter of Tel Aviv, Washington continues to be the Israeli military’s principal source of armaments.
As part of a $95 billion package for foreign military assistance, the Congress authorized $17 billion in military aid to Israel in April.
Since a cross-border incident that left 1,200 Palestinians dead, Israel has killed over 38,000 of them. A humanitarian catastrophe has been brought on by the activities.
The way US President Joe Biden has handled the Gaza assault, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has disturbed him. However, there hasn’t been a significant cutoff in the flow of weapons.
With US authorities verifying a halt in shipments of 2,000-pound bombs, Netanyahu even accused the Biden administration of limiting military aid, citing worries over civilian fatalities in the beleaguered region.
Figures leaked to the media, however, indicate that Washington may not have been effective in practice and that its response came too late.
The US shipped at least 14,000 MK-84 bombs—which are used in bomber aircraft—to Israel between October 7 and June 28, along with other munitions, 3,000 precision-guided Hellfire missiles, 1,000 bunker-buster bombs, 2,600 small-caliber bombs dropped from aircraft, and 6,500 227 kg bombs. These official sources spoke to Reuters under the condition of anonymity.
Additionally, in May, the Biden administration approved the symbolic one-ton airplane munitions transfer.
A confidential document distributed to House Democratic leaders and other Congress members stated that the US military assistance to Israel since October 7 has consisted of less than 1% of the one-ton bomb shipments that have been stopped.