As Israel prepares a ground offensive in Gaza, the White House sends military aid to Jerusalem and moves to prevent a crisis across the wider Middle East.
Israeli Iron Dome missiles attempt to intercept a rocket, fired from the Gaza Strip, over the city of Netivot in southern Israel on Sunday. The Biden administration on Sunday scrambled to prevent Hamas’s assault on Israel from escalating into a multi-front, regional conflict, deploying a U.S. aircraft carrier group to the eastern Mediterranean and rushing arms to the Israeli military in a bid to deter the Lebanon-based Hezbollah and other actors from attacking.
Blinken and other top diplomats on Sunday worked the phones, calling officials across the region to pass messages to Hezbollah telling the group not to attack Israel. Israel’s request for Iron Dome interceptors — ground-to-air missiles that target incoming rockets — is a precautionary step in anticipation of future bombardments and not an indication that it is running low on a missile defense tool that has been key to shielding Israeli citizens from incoming fire, U.S. officials said.
A spokeswoman for the Israeli Embassy in Washington declined to comment on the request. “We do not comment on the army needs that are discussed with the U.S.,” she said.The Biden administration is also expected to add money for the Israeli government in a funding request to Congress on top of additional military support for Ukraine, said the officials.
Erdan, showing photos and videos of dead Israelis and civilians being dragged away to Gaza, compared the attacks to the “pogroms” and “Nazi death squads in the 1940s.” He said Israel wanted full condemnation of Hamas, but would forge its own path regardless. Even worse was the operational failure by the military “because you would expect that Israel’s most sensitive and dangerous border would be defended better than that,” Unna added.The fact that it was a holiday is not an excuse, he said. “This is the most dangerous front line of Israel and we spent billions on technology,” that,
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