Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the U.S. is accelerating arms supplies to Ukraine as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s military confronts a Russian assault on the nation’s northeast.
The decision by President Biden to withhold the shipments of military aid unless Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu abandons its strategy for defeating Hamas by invading Rafah is unconstitutional.
John Nichols The ICC prosecutor’s decision to seek arrest warrants against Israeli leaders puts it beyond doubt: It’s time to cut off the weapons.
Following President Joe Biden stating that he would withhold certain weapons from Israel amid the Israel-Hamas war, Republicans were confronted on Sunday over former President Ronald Reagan's similar stance to leverage military aid to Israel.On October 7, 2023, Hamas, a Palestinian militant group, launched an attack against Israel, killing some 1,200 people and taking about 250 hostage. In the months that followed, Israel's offensive has killed more than 34,000 Palestinians in Gaza, the...
A coalition of press freedom, civil liberties, and human rights groups is urging President Joe Biden to release a new report to Congress about U.S. military aid and human rights to the press and the public. Joe Biden by Gage Skidmore is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEA coalition of press freedom, civil liberties, and human rights groups sent a letter to President Biden today, calling on his administration to make public a new report to Congress on U.S....
Germany's Ministry of Defence has requested additional funding for military aid to Ukraine from the government. Berlin aims to increase the volume of military aid to Ukraine. The Ministry of Defence has requested an additional €3.8 billion from the German government for the procurement of weapons for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, as reported by BILD. Previously, Germany had already allocated €7.1 billion for military aid to Kyiv for 2024. The Ministry of Defence aims to raise the total amount of...
The package comes as Russia launches a major offensive in Kharkiv.
The cat is out of the bag.US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin confirmed the flood of media leaks that Washington had halted a shipment of munitions, especially large bombs, to pressure Israel into refraining from a large invasion of Rafah in Gaza.Hours later, US President Joe Biden went further and said that if Israel ignored this warning shot and fully invaded Rafah anyway, he would halt all offensive weapons shipments (while maintaining the Iron Dome interceptor and other defensive shipments)...
The United States is scrutinizing the delivery of further pending military aid to Israel after pausing a weapons shipment to the close ally, the State Department said on Wednesday. U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said earlier in the day during testimony in Congress that "one shipment of high-payload munitions" had been halted, confirming reports in U.S. media. Hours later, U.S. State Department spokesman Matthew Miller called into question other deliveries. "We have paused one shipment of...
NY Post readers discuss President Biden withholding military aid to Israel in an effort to stop the IDF from entering Rafah.
The Israeli military released footage on Saturday 18 May claiming to show humanitarian aid entering the Gaza Strip through the US-built floating pier which came into operation this week. Videos show packages being moved onto trucks ahead of their delivery. The Israel Defense Forces and the White House said about 300 pallets of aid were taken into the enclave for distribution on Friday. The shipment is the first in an operation that American military officials anticipate could scale up to 150...
US President Joe Biden announced on Wednesday, 8 May, that he would suspend certain deliveries of American weapons to Israel if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decides on an invasion of Rafah, admitting that these arms have been employed in Gaza, resulting in civilian casualties. “Civilians have been killed in Gaza as a consequence of those bombs and other ways in which they go after population centers,” Biden told CNN. The Biden administration has faced remarkable pressure, even from...