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US reported pause on weapon shipment to Israel ‘just a drop in the ocean’
We haven’t gotten any official response from the Israeli government to the reports of the US pausing a shipment of weapons to Israel.
We are seeing statements by some anonymously sourced officials in Israeli media that there are concerns among members of the security establishment that the halting of this weapon shipment is a tactic by the US to increase pressure on the Israeli government to stop an all-out invasion of Rafah and to accept the terms of a ceasefire.
Not many details are being reported about what was in that weapons shipment. We are seeing numbers like perhaps around 1,800- and 2,000-pound bombs and around 1,700 and 500-pound bombs.
We should stress that this is a very small amount of weapons compared to the number of weapons that the US provides to Israel – this is just a drop in the ocean.
There is concern among the security and military establishment based on Israeli media reports that this perhaps is a harbinger of things to come, meaning that if Israel doesn’t start adhering more to what the US wants, perhaps the US will halt further shipments of weapons going forward.
Israel plays down US arms shipment hold-up
The Israeli military says it resolves any disagreements with the US “behind closed doors” following news that the US has held up an arms shipment amid concerns over Israeli military operations in Rafah.
At a conference hosted by the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, chief military spokesperson Daniel Hagari described coordination between Israel and the US as reaching “a scope without precedent, I think, in history”.
Israeli Air Force carries out wave of attacks on southern Lebanon
Israel’s military said jet fighters attacked sites in several areas of southern Lebanon overnight in what it said were operations against “military buildings” and “terrorist infrastructure” of the Hezbollah movement.
Accompanied by grainy, aerial footage of night-time bombing runs and missile attacks, Israel’s military said the sites attacked were located in South Lebanon’s Kfar Kila, Aita al-Shaab, Khiam, Maroun al-Ras, Hula and Aitaroun areas.
Israeli ground forces also attacked the Tayr Harfa area and Jebbayn, the military said.
