President Donald Trump has directed the U.S. Government to According to a White House source quoted by Reuters on Saturday, military action to remove a hold placed by former President Joe Biden on shipment of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel.
This expected decision turned around Biden’s first choice to stop the bomb deliveries on account of worries about their possible effect on inhabitants in the Rafah region of Gaza during the continuing conflict with Israel in the area.
Trump said on the Reality Social channel—without offering any more details—that many things Israel had ordered and paid for but not delivered by Biden are now on their way!
Trump and Biden both have been strong Israel advocates, crucial U.S. notwithstanding growing opposition from human rights groups over the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza created by Israel’s military campaign against Hamas, So far, protests asking for an arms embargo have failed.
The release of several Israeli hostages kept by Hamas in Gaza in exchange for Palestinians detained in Israel followed a ceasefire established a week prior. Trump cautioned that if Hamas did not free detainees in Gaza, there would be “hell to pay” before he took office on January 20.
Israeli accounts suggest Hamas seized roughly 250 hostages and killed some 1,200 people in their October 7, 2023 attack on Israel. This strike started the most recent phase in the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian war.
Israel started a military campaign in response to over 47,000 deaths recorded by the Gazan health ministry in Gaza. The offensive has displaced almost all of Gaza’s citizens and worsened a food catastrophe as well as raised claims of genocide and war crimes—those Israel refutes.
Defending against organizations the United States identifies as Iran-backed insurgents—such Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and the Houthis in Yemen—Israel is still supported by the United States.
