US Authorizes Transfer of Military Equipment to Israel, TWP Says

March 30, 2024 Hour: 2:51 pm

According to a new information from The Washington Post Journal, United Satet’s government ‘quite’authorized a new package of million dollars in military equipment like bombs and fighter jets to Israel amid tensions of the Biden Administration and the Zionist government and an UN resolution asking for inmediat ceasefire in Gaza.

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The transfer of millions of dollars in military equipment is made despite Washington’s concerns about an anticipated military offensive in southern Gaza that could threaten the lives of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian civilians, the newspaper notes.

The military equipment includes more than 1,800 2,000-pound MK84 bombs-which have been linked to mass casualties throughout the conflict-and 500 500-pound MK82 bombs, officials of the Pentagon and the State Department told the American newspaper that they prefer anonymity because this new transfer was not public.

The U.S Biden Administration has approved the transfer of:

• 25 F-35 fighter jets
• 500 MK82 500-pound bombs
• 1,800 MK84 2,000-pound bombs

In support of the ongoing Israeli aggression in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/BHXFLozxDm

— TIMES OF GAZA (@Timesofgaza)
March 29, 2024

The media also recalls that Israel has widely used these bombs in Gaza. According to several reports, the Zionist state used them mainly in the bombing of a refugee camp on 31 October last year.

The Washington Post further notes that MK84 bombs can raze city blocks and leave craters in the earth 40 feet wide or wider, and are almost never used by Western armies in densely populated locations due to the risk of civilian casualties.

This week there were discrepancies between Israel and the US. that led Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to cancel the visit of two of his top advisors to Washington after the U.S. did not use its right of veto, but abstained, in the UN Security Council, which first adopted a resolution calling for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.

According to data from the Gaza health authorities, the total number of dead in the Gaza Strip had reached 32,490 and the number of wounded 74,889, after almost six months of Zionist offensive in that area, which began on 7 October.