WASHINGTON (Dispatches) – The Biden administration has sent to the Zionist regime large numbers of munitions, including more than 10,000 highly destructive 2,000-pound bombs and thousands of Hellfire missiles, since the start of the war in Gaza, said two U.S. officials briefed on an updated list of weapons shipments.
Between the war’s start last October and recent days, the United States has transferred at least 14,000 of the MK-84 2,000-pound bombs, 6,500 500-pound bombs, 3,000 Hellfire precision-guided air-to-ground missiles, 1,000 bunker-buster bombs, 2,600 air-dropped small-diameter bombs, and other munitions, according to the officials, who were not authorized to speak publicly.
While the officials didn’t give a timeline for the shipments, the totals suggest there has been no significant drop-off in U.S. military support for its ally, despite international calls to limit weapons supplies and a recent administration decision to pause a shipment of powerful bombs.
Experts said the contents of the shipments appear consistent with what the Zionist regime would need to replenish supplies used in this eight-month intense military campaign in Gaza, which it launched on Oct. 7.
The news Axios website also cited one U.S. and one Israeli official as saying that the release of about 1,700 500-pound bombs was one of the issues discussed during this week’s meeting between Zionist war minister Yoav Gallant and senior White House officials.
“During the meetings in Washington, we were told that the 500-pound bombs will be released after the Rafah operation is over in two weeks,” an Israeli official said.
The shipment, which also includes the 2,000-pound bombs, was put on hold in May amid concerns about the invasion of the city of Rafah, where more than half of Gaza’s 2.4 million population have sought shelter from Israeli strikes elsewhere in Gaza.
According to the report, the U.S. administration is still reviewing the other part of the shipment which includes 1,800 2,000-pound bombs.
The occupying regime launched the war on Gaza on October 7 after the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas waged the surprise Operation Al-Aqsa Storm against the occupying entity in response to the Israeli regime’s decades-long campaign of bloodletting and devastation against Palestinians.
Since then, the United States has supplied the occupying regime with more than 10,000 tons of military equipment and used its veto power against all United Nations Security Council resolutions that called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.