{"id":4058,"date":"2024-05-08T00:07:42","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T00:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/08\/u-s-delays-arms-shipments-to-israel-amid-rafah-tensions\/"},"modified":"2024-05-08T00:07:42","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T00:07:42","slug":"u-s-delays-arms-shipments-to-israel-amid-rafah-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/08\/u-s-delays-arms-shipments-to-israel-amid-rafah-tensions\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. delays arms shipments to Israel amid Rafah tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\">The Biden administration is delaying the sale of at least two arms shipments to Israel amid mounting concern about the country\u2019s plan to expand a military operation in southern Gaza that could dramatically increase the conflict\u2019s death toll, said four people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\">The White House and State Department declined to explain the decision, but it is the first known instance of a delay in U.S. arms transfers since the Oct. 7 Hamas-led attack into Israel that killed more than 1,200 people.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on The Washington Post<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration is delaying the sale of at least two arms shipments to Israel amid mounting concern about the country\u2019s plan to expand a military operation in southern Gaza that could dramatically increase the conflict\u2019s death toll, said four people familiar with the matter. The White House and State Department declined to explain the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4059,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}