Weapons
By Tom Bateman, State Department Correspondent BBC News 10 May 2024 Updated 11 May 2024 Image source, Getty Images Image caption, The US has grown increasingly concerned over mounting civilian deaths in Gaza. The US says Israel may have used American-supplied weapons in breach of international humanitarian law in some instances during the war in […]
Secretary of State Antony Blinken delivered to Congress on Friday a highly anticipated report on the Israeli military’s operations in Gaza that accused Israeli forces of potentially violating international humanitarian law but did not formally find they had already done so, according to the document’s key findings. The report states that though there are allegations […]
About 110,000 people have fled Rafah as Israeli bombardment there intensifies, the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees said early Friday. A UNICEF coordinator there said that roads out of the city “are jammed” with “exhausted, terrified” families. Later Friday, the Biden administration published a lengthy report announcing that it was “reasonable to assess” that Israel […]
CNN — The Biden administration said Friday that it is “reasonable to assess” that US weapons have been used by Israeli forces in
Secretary of State Antony Blinken delivered to Congress on Friday a highly anticipated report on the Israeli military’s operations in Gaza that its forces of potentially violating international humanitarian law but not formally finding they had already done so, according to the document’s key findings. The report states that though there are allegations that Israel […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A soon-to-be-released Biden administration review of Israel’s use of U.S.-provided weapons in its war in Gaza does not conclude that Israel has violated the terms for their use, according to three people who have been briefed on the matter. The report is expected to be sharply critical of Israel, even though it […]
Defiant Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed his country would “stand alone” if its closest ally followed through on threats to suspend arms shipments over a full . . .
President Biden has paused a shipment of bombs to Israel to prevent them from being used in the assault on the city of Rafah. Administration officials said that 1,800 2,000-pound bombs and 1,700 500-pound bombs are being withheld and that the administration is reviewing whether to hold back future transfers. The United States is by […]
President Biden said he would halt the shipment of U.S. offensive weapons to Israel if the country moves ahead with its long-planned ground invasion of Rafah. “Civilians have been killed in Gaza as a consequence of those bombs,” Biden said in an interview with CNN, referring to 2,000-pound bombs supplied . . .
President Biden said Thursday that the U.S. will not provide Israel with weapons for an offensive in Rafah and at the same time acknowledged that Israel has used powerful American-made weapons in deadly attacks in Gaza. In an interview with CNN, the president was asked about the U.S. pause last week of a shipment of […]