The shipment was supposed to consist of 1,800 2,000-pound bombs and 1,700 500-pound bombs, according to a senior administration official.
More than 1 million civilians are sheltering in Rafah after evacuating other parts of Gaza amid Israel’s war on Hamas.
The United States paused a shipment of bombs to Israel amid concerns over their potential use in a Rafah incursion, according ...
The United States withheld 3,500 bombs last week out of concern that they might be used in a major assault against the ...
The pausing of weapons marks the first time that Biden has acted on the warning that he gave Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in April that US policy on Gaza would depend on how Israel treated ...
In Washington’s first formal ­rebuke to Israel’s campaign against Hamas in Gaza, the Biden administration has paused weapons destined for its top Middle East ally, as Israel was mounting new ...
News of the move comes as the White House blasted the ‘unacceptable’ closure of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt after ...
The US paused a shipment of bombs to Israel over worries about Israel nearing a decision to launch a wide-ranging military offensive on the southern Gaza city of Rafah, which President Joe Biden ...
US officials had declined for days to comment on the halted transfer, word of which came as Biden on Tuesday described US ...
WASHINGTON: The U.S. paused a shipment of bombs to Israel last week over concerns that Israel was approaching a decision on ...
The US paused a shipment of bombs to Israel last week over concerns that Israel was approaching a decision on launching a full-scale assault on the southern Gaza city of Rafah against the wishes of ...
Gaza’s vital Rafah crossing remained closed early Wednesday after an Israeli tank brigade seized it the day before.