According to an unnamed US official, the ammunition seized includes 1,800 heavy bombs. The US government has repeatedly spoken out against the announced invasion of Rafah, but continues to support Israel.
Last week, the United States government stopped sending 3,500 bombs to Israel, “concerned about their possible use in Rafah,” the southernmost part of Gaza, where it said more than a million people have been displaced from other parts of the Palestinian Authority. enclave. to CNN reports.
The detained shipment includes 1,800 bombs weighing 907 kilos and 1,700 bombs weighing 226 kilos, according to information provided to the news outlet by an unidentified US official.
The informant said concerns are mainly about the end use of the 1,800 heavier bombs and “the impact they could have in dense urban environments, as we have seen in other parts of Gaza.”
CNN reported this weekend that a shipment of ammunition to Israel had been held up, but the reason was unclear.
The US government has spoken out on several occasions against the announced invasion of Ráfah and has called for a comprehensive plan to protect the more than one million civilian refugees in that city to prevent an extension of the humanitarian disaster that Gaza is experiencing to the war that Israel declared against Hamas after the attack that that Islamic movement carried out on Israeli territory on October 7 last year.
Israeli forces took control of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt on Tuesday, cutting off the passage of people and goods as they continued to bomb the area.
US State Department spokesman Matt Miller has said that these military actions appear to be “a limited operation” for now, although we will have to look at the next steps to know their scope.
“They have said, I think very clearly, that it is no secret that they want to carry out a major military operation there. We have made it clear that we are against such an operation,” he added.
More than 34,700 people have been killed and more than 78,000 injured in Gaza since Israel declared war on Hamas seven months ago, ending Tuesday.
The attack on Israeli territory on October 7 left around 1,200 dead and Hamas also took around 250 people hostage, of whom fewer than 100 are believed to be alive and in their possession.
Source: EITB
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