Faced with the growing risk of alienating a portion of Democratic voters, the American president has seen his influence with Israeli leaders diminish, while the toll of the war with Hamas in Gaza increases. Israel and the United States are at a turning point in their relationship, seriously shaken by the surprise attack by Hamas last year and its consequences for civilian populations in the Levant.
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Correspondent in the United States
By Maurin PicardPublished on 05/9/2024 at 7:03 p.m.
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LThe rumor had been growing for several days, fueled by the first Israeli strikes against Rafah (southern Gaza) and the revelations of the American media on the growing anger of the White House. Confirmed Wednesday during a Senate hearing by Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, it was supported by Joe Biden the same evening. On CNN, the American president admitted having given the order last week to interrupt an arms delivery to Israel: 1,800 bombs of 2,000 pounds (900 kilos) and 1,700 others of 500 pounds (225 kilos) had not been sent to the IDF, the Israeli army. Direct consequence of the refusal of Binyamin Netanyahu’s government to renounce its ground offensive against Rafah, where more than a million Palestinian civilians are refugees, and within which the last operational battalions of the Islamist group Hamas are hiding.
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