Jesus Mesa
U.S. officials have halted a significant arms shipment to Israel over concerns about the potential implications of the large-scale military operation Israeli forces are preparing to undertake in Rafah, a densely populated city in southern Gaza that's sheltering more than a million Palestinians.
Last week, in response to the Israeli government's persistence that it would go ahead with the Rafah offensive regardless of whether Washington was on board, the Pentagon confirmed that the Biden administration paused the delivery of about 1,800 2,000-pound bombs and another 1,700 smaller 500-pound bombs.
Both those weapons have been widely used by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) in Gaza—often to break up the tunnel network used by Hamas that runs under the Strip, and not without collateral damage.
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