CNN —Two key congressional Democrats have given their approval to allow the Biden administration to proceed with what is believed to be the biggest weapons package for Israel, expected to be worth more than $18 billion and include some 50 F-15 fighter jets. Biden officials have argued that Hamas has been degraded to the point where it couldn’t carry out another similar attack. Biden threatened to withhold weapons for Israel if it carried out a major offensive in central Rafah. Democrats have increasingly called on the White House to do more to condition aid to Israel. “I don’t want the kinds of weapons that Israel has to be utilized to have more death.

Source: CNN June 18, 2024 17:15 UTC