The United States has asked Israel to delay its ground offensive in Gaza until it can send more air defenses to the region, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday, adding that the Tel Aviv government had agreed to the request. . According to this newspaper, the US believes its bases in the Middle East region will be attacked by Iranian-controlled militias in retaliation for the Israeli offensive, and wants more resources on the ground to protect them, including Patriot batteries. Let us recall that since Israel began bombing the Gaza Strip on October 7, there have been more than a dozen rocket and rocket attacks on US bases in Iraq and Syria.
Washington also wants to give Qatar more time to negotiate the release of hostages held by Hamas while allowing humanitarian aid to flow into the Gaza Strip, where more than 6,500 people have already been killed and the situation for civilians is deteriorating. worse, in despair.