Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman criticized President Joe Biden for pausing a shipment of arms to Israel.
The Biden administration halted a shipment of thousands of bombs to Israel last week amid concerns over its plan to launch a full-scale assault on the southern Gazan city of Rafah, several outlets reported on Tuesday.
“Israel should not launch a major ground operation in Rafah, where more than a million people are sheltering with nowhere else to go,” an unnamed senior administration official told The Liberal Washington Post.
It is the first known instance of a pause in U.S. military aid to Israel since Hamas‘ attack on Israel on October 7, which killed more than 1,200 people. In the months since, the U.S. had accelerated the transfer of weapons to its ally even as Israel’s offensive in Gaza has left much of it in ruins and more than 34,000 Palestinians killed, according to the Associated Press.
In an appearance on Fox News on Tuesday, Fetterman, a Democrat who is a vocal supporter of Israel’s actions in Gaza, said he doesn’t agree that the U.S. should withhold arms from Israel or impose any conditions on its ally.
Biden has been “very supportive about Israel, but I don’t agree with him on everything,” Fetterman said. “Like for example, I was public and I said that I don’t think we should be withholding any kind of munitions and I think, I said, I think we need to send them immediately… Israel is in this kind of a war and we, I have no conditions, I never have and I can’t imagine I ever will.”
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