The United States authorizes sending more bombs and fighter planes to Israel, according to the «Washington Post»

President Joe Biden’s administration «quietly» authorized the shipment of others this week bombs AND fighter planes TO Israelaccording to the newspaper Washington Post. The transfer of millions of dollars in military equipment is being carried out despite Washington’s concerns about a possible delay military offensive in southern Gaza which could put the lives of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian civilians at risk, the newspaper underlines. And in a scenario of recent discrepancies between the two governments, which even led to the cancellation of a trip by Israeli advisors to Washington due to the abstention of the United States at the UN Security Council in which a resolution was approved that called for an immediate truce, something not achieved by Israel.

The military equipment includes more than 1,800 2,000-pound MK84 bombs, which have been linked to mass deaths during the conflict, and 500 500-pound MK82 bombs, Pentagon and State Department officials who prefer the anonymity, because this new transfer was not public.

The newspaper also points out that MK84 bombs can do this level blocks and leave craters in the ground 40 feet (12 meters) wide or more, and are almost never used by Western armies in highly populated places due to risk of civilian casualties.

The total number of deaths in the Gaza Strip has exceeded 32,700almost six months after the Israeli offensive in that area, which began on 7 October. Washington Post recalls that, according to several reports, Israel has widely used such bombs in Gaza, in particular in the bombing of a refugee camp on 31 October.

This week there have been disagreements between Israel and the United States leading to the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, will cancel the visit of two of his top advisers to Washington. Netanyahu said the US action at the UN was «a clear retreat from the consistent position in the Security Council since the beginning of the war».

The newspaper recalls that the shipment of weapons to Israel also worries Biden’s democratic allies, who believe that the United States has a responsibility to conserve the weapons in the absence of an Israeli commitment to limit civilian casualties.