U.S. President Joe Biden said he would halt additional shipments of offensive weapons to Israel if the country proceeded with a ground invasion of Rafah, decrying the potential loss of civilian life as just wrong.
We're going to continue to make sure Israel is secure in terms of Iron Dome and their ability to respond to attacks that came out of the Middle East recently, Biden said in an interview Wednesday with CNN. But it's, it's just wrong. We're not going to we're not going to supply the weapons and artillery shells.
Civilians have been killed in Gaza as a consequence of those bombs and other ways in which they go after population centers, Biden said.
Yet even as tension mounts, Biden administration officials and former officials said the moves had a clearly defined goal: exert as much pressure as possible on Israel to scale back or abandon an invasion of Rafah while being careful not to make a total break with Netanyahu's government.
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