{"id":4079,"date":"2024-05-08T12:06:09","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T12:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/08\/u-s-paused-shipment-of-thousands-of-bombs-to-israel-amid-rafah-rift\/"},"modified":"2024-05-08T12:06:09","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T12:06:09","slug":"u-s-paused-shipment-of-thousands-of-bombs-to-israel-amid-rafah-rift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/08\/u-s-paused-shipment-of-thousands-of-bombs-to-israel-amid-rafah-rift\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. paused shipment of thousands of bombs to Israel amid Rafah rift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\">The Biden administration paused the shipment of thousands of weapons to Israel, including controversial 2,000-pound bombs, 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, U.S. officials said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\">\u201cIsrael should not launch a major ground operation in Rafah, where more than a million people are sheltering with nowhere else to go,\u201d said a senior administration official, explaining the U.S. decision to pause the weapons shipments. \u201cWe are especially focused on the end-use of the 2,000-pound bombs and the impact they could have in dense urban settings as we have seen in other parts of Gaza.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on The Washington Post<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration paused the shipment of thousands of weapons to Israel, including controversial 2,000-pound bombs, 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, U.S. officials said Tuesday. \u201cIsrael should not launch a major ground operation in Rafah, where more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4080,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4079","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\/4079","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=4079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}