President Donald Trump has lifted a hold on sending 2,000-pound bombs to Israel, reversing a decision made by his predecessor, Joe Biden. The bombs, which had been ordered and paid for by Israel, were withheld by Biden in May as a measure to reduce civilian casualties during Israel's war with Hamas in Gaza.
File photo: Then-President Joe Biden halted the delivery of the large bombs in May as part of an effort to keep Israel from launching an all-out assault on the southern Gaza city of Rafah.WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has ended his predecessor’s hold on sending 2,000-pound bombs to Israel , lifting a pressure point that had been meant to reduce civilian casualties during the U.S. ally’s war with Hamas in Gaza that is now halted by a tenuous ceasefire.
“We released them today,” Trump said of the bombs. He told reporters on Air Force One, “they’ve been waiting for them for a long time. You know, they’ve been in storage for a long time and we released them today to Israel.” “Civilians have been killed in Gaza as a consequence of those bombs and other ways in which they go after population centers,” Biden told CNN in May when he held up the weapons. “I made it clear that if they go into Rafah … I’m not supplying the weapons that have been used historically to deal with Rafah, to deal with the cities, that deal with that problem.
Trump’s action, five days into his term, comes as he has celebrated the first phase of a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel that has paused the fighting and seen the release of some hostages held by Hamas in Gaza in return for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel. Negotiations have yet to begin in earnest on the more difficult second phase of the deal that would eventually see the release of all hostages held by Hamas and an enduring halt to the fighting.
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