{"id":9353,"date":"2024-03-30T17:00:29","date_gmt":"2024-03-30T17:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=9353"},"modified":"2024-03-30T17:00:29","modified_gmt":"2024-03-30T17:00:29","slug":"us-quietly-transfers-hundreds-of-2000lb-bombs-to-israel-despite-rafah-invasion-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=9353","title":{"rendered":"US quietly transfers hundreds of 2,000lb bombs to Israel despite Rafah invasion concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"


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The US this week quietly authorised the switch of a whole bunch of two,000lb bombs to Israel<\/a>, regardless of rising considerations over a deliberate offensive on Rafah<\/a> and a UN Safety Council decision demanding a direct ceasefire.<\/p>\n

The brand new packages, value billions of {dollars}, will embody greater than 1,800 MK84 2,000lb bombs and 500 MK82 500lb ones, in response to stories by the Washington Put up and Reuters.<\/p>\n

The two,000lb bombs are very hardly ever utilized by Western militaries anymore as a result of scale of civilian casualties they will trigger, however a number of investigations have proven Israel makes use of them extensively in Gaza.<\/p>\n

The bombs have been linked to mass-casualty occasions, such because the Oct 31 bombing of Jabalia<\/a> refugee camp that killed extra than100 folks.<\/p>\n

In a separate bundle final week, the US State Division additionally authorised the switch of 25 F-35A fighter jets and engines value roughly $2.5 billion (\u00a31.98 billion), US officers advised the Washington Put up.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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The US this week quietly authorised the switch of a whole bunch of two,000lb bombs to Israel, regardless of rising considerations over a deliberate offensive on Rafah and a UN Safety Council decision demanding a direct ceasefire. The brand new packages, value billions of {dollars}, will embody greater than 1,800 MK84 2,000lb bombs and 500 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[8255,8256,3483,5429,1312,3007,6323,7447,8254],"class_list":["post-9353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-2000lb","tag-bombs","tag-concerns","tag-hundreds","tag-invasion","tag-israel","tag-quietly","tag-rafah","tag-transfers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}