Israel-Gaza war: Biden to halt some arms supplies if Israel invades Rafah

President Joe Biden shared his thoughts about student protests against the war in Gaza at the White House.

EMENTUS President Joe Biden publicly warned Israel for the first time on Wednesday that the United States would surely stop shipping weapons to Israel if it launched a major invasion of the crowded refugee city of Rafah.

Biden said in an interview that if they entered Rafah, I would not provide them with the weapons used to deal with Rafah and the cities dealing with this problem.

Biden’s statements are the most challenging public statements yet during his attempts to stave off the Israeli attack on Rafah and highlight the growing dispute between the United States and its strongest allies in the Middle East.

Biden admitted that Israel used American weapons to kill civilians in Gaza. The Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip said that the Israeli campaign, which has been ongoing for seven months, has so far led to the killing of 34,844 Palestinians, most of whom are civilians.

On the other hand, two prominent Israeli officials criticized President Biden on Thursday for threatening to stop arms supplies.

Israeli disappointment:

In the first reaction from the Israeli side to Biden’s warning, Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, told Israeli public radio, It is a complicated matter and a very disappointing statement issued by the president to whom we have expressed our gratitude since the beginning of the war.

Israel defied international protests by sending tanks and carrying out “targeted raids” in the eastern areas of the border city located in the southern Gaza Strip, which is crowded with displaced Palestinian civilians and which Israel considers to be the last stronghold of the Hamas movement. 

Israel attacked Rafah this week, where more than a million Palestinians have taken refuge. Despite this, Biden said he disagreed with the Israeli bombing there because Israel did not bomb “population centres.”

“Civilians killed in Gaza” by American bombs:

A senior American official said that Washington reviewed the process of delivering weapons that might destroy the people of Gaza, and as a result, they stopped sending a shipment consisting of 1,800 bombs, each weighing 2,000 pounds (907 kilograms), and 1,700 bombs, each weighing 500 pounds (about 227 pounds). Kilograms).

How can Biden’s statements about stopping the supply of weapons to Israel be understood?

A lot of Civilians of Gaza have died due to those bombs and other tricks of targeting population centres of Gaza, said Biden when he was asked about the nine hundred and seven-kilogram bomb that Washington was sending to Israel.

 US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin publicly acknowledged that Biden’s decision to stop sending heavy weapons to Israel last week was taken out of concern about Rafah. Washington strictly criticizes Israel’s plans to launch a significant attack without caring about Gaza civilians.

The war broke out after the Islamic Resistance Movement ( Hamas ) attack on Israel on October 7, which resulted in the killing of about 1,200 people and the kidnapping of about 250 others, 133 of whom are believed to be still detained in Gaza, according to Israeli statistics.

The United States will continue to provide defensive weapons to Israel, said President Biden. He added: We will continue to ensure that Israel is safe and its ability to respond to attacks from the Middle East that recently launched.

He added: But this seems wrong… We will not supply weapons and artillery shells.