2024-05-08 11:27:11
The American administration suspended ammunition supplies to Israel this week for the first time since October 7, 2023.
As Day.Az reports with reference to TASS, this was reported by the Axios portal with reference to two Israeli officials.
According to them, this step caused serious concern to the Israeli authorities, who began to find out the reasons for the delay in the supply of shells.
The publication’s interlocutors noted that US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, during his visit to Israel, had a “tough conversation” with Prime Minister of the Jewish State Benjamin Netanyahu regarding the military operation in Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip.
Previously, many world leaders and international organizations have repeatedly called on the Israeli authorities to refuse to send troops to Rafah. Among the opponents of this plan, the United States in Washington believes that Israel’s plan to send ground forces into the city is a mistake that will harm the civilian population there and weaken the security of the Jewish state.
Meanwhile, the Israeli authorities, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, have previously repeatedly stated that they will not abandon the already approved plans for an operation in Rafah, since, according to them, the deployment of troops into this city is the key to “complete victory” over the armed forces of Hamas. In turn, representatives of the right-wing radical wing of the ruling coalition – Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich (far-right Religious Zionism party) and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir (far-right Jewish Power party) – threatened to leave the government if the operation in Rafah was abandoned. could lead to the collapse of the coalition and the calling of new elections.
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