According to an unnamed US official, the ammunition held includes 1,800 heavy bombs. The US Government has spoken out on several occasions 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 area of Gaza, where there are more than a million displaced people from other areas of the Palestinian enclave, according 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 channel by an unidentified US official.
The informant said the concern is primarily 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 over the weekend that a shipment of ammunition to Israel had been stopped, 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 civilians refugees in that city in order to prevent an expansion of the humanitarian disaster. that Gaza is experiencing due to the war declared by Israel against Hamas after the attack perpetrated last October 7 by that Islamist movement in Israeli territory.
The Israeli military forces took control of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt on Tuesday and cut off the passage of people and goods, while they continued bombing the area.
US State Department spokesman Matt Miller has said that these military actions for now appear to be “a limited operation”, although we must look at the next steps to know their scope.
“They have said, I think quite clearly, that it is no secret that they want to carry out a major military operation there. We have made it clear that we oppose such an operation,” he added.
More than 34,700 people have been killed and more than 78,000 injured in Gaza since seven months ago, which ended Tuesday, Israel declared war on Hamas.
The attack on Israeli territory on October 7 left around 1,200 dead and Hamas also took around 250 people hostage, of whom it is believed that less than 100 are still alive and in their possession.
Source: Eitb
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