Senior White House officials have told Israel’s defence minister that Washington will maintain a pause on a single shipment of heavy bombs that has been held up since May, the Reuters news agency reports, citing a senior US official.
The US and Israel remain in discussions about the shipment of 2,000-pound and 500-pound bombs, which were paused over concerns about their use on civilians in Rafah, southern Gaza, the unnamed official said.
The shipment remains the only one the US has withheld from Israel, and the unnamed official said other US weapons will continue to flow as Israel fights Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah on its northern border with Lebanon.
The official’s comments come as US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan and Yoav Gallant met in Washington, DC, this week.
Following the meeting, Gallant said there had been significant progress on US munitions supplies to Israel, saying “obstacles were removed and bottlenecks were addressed”.
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