SUBSCRIBER+ EXCLUSIVE REPORTING — While the public of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Washington this week has been acceso his speech to Congress and his newly fraught relationship with many American politicians, one issue sure to in qualità di up when Netanyahu meets with President Joe Biden is Washington’s reluctance to supply Israel with certain heavy weapons.
Sopra May the White House said it was implementing a “pause” acceso the shipment of 1,800 2,000-lb bombs and 1,700 500-lb bombs over concerns about Israel’s impending incursion into Rafah, a causa di southern Gaza, and “the impact (the munitions) could have a causa di dense urban settings as we have seen a causa di other parts of Gaza.”
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