PNN – Informed sources told CNN that the US President Joe Biden’s government has given the green light to sell 50 F-15 fighter jets worth more than 18 billion dollars to the Zionist regime.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, quoted by CNN, in this deal, which is the largest foreign military sale by the US to the Zionist regime since the start of the Israeli army’s attack on Gaza in October last year, 30 AIM-120 air-to-air missiles are also to be sold to the Zionist regime.
According to CNN, the new sale of some of the most advanced weapons of the United States to the Zionist regime shows that even in the situation where the officials of the Biden administration criticize the operation of this regime’s army in Gaza, which according to the Ministry of Health of Gaza has led to the death of more than 32 thousand Palestinians, to what extent Washington continues its military support to the Zionist regime.
The sale is likely to be hotly debated in Congress, particularly by members of the president’s own party, the Democratic Party, CNN added.
US arms sales to Israel have come under intense scrutiny in recent months, with Democratic lawmakers demanding limits on military aid to the regime until it allows more humanitarian aid to be sent to Gaza and does more to protect civilian lives there.
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According to CNN, since the beginning of the Israeli army’s attack on Gaza, the United States has made more than 100 foreign military sales to this regime, but since many of them were below a certain amount of financial value, which required notification to Congress has, the Biden administration did not need to get the approval of the Congress of this country to sell them.
Despite Washington’s claim of concern about a possible military attack by the Israeli regime on the Rafah area in southern Gaza, which could endanger the lives of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian civilians, the Biden administration has quietly allocated billions of dollars in military aid to Israel, including bombs and fighters.
This is despite the fact that previous reports had considered Israel’s (regime) use of 2,000-pound bombs as the cause of widespread civilian casualties in Gaza.
On October 7, 2023, the Palestinian resistance groups launched the “Al-Aqsa Storm” operation from Gaza against the positions of the Israeli regime, and finally, on November 24, 2023, a four-day temporary ceasefire was established, or the pause for the exchange of prisoners between Hamas and the Zionist regime.
This pause in the war continued for seven days and finally on Friday morning (December 1, 2023) the temporary ceasefire ended and the Israeli regime resumed attacks against Gaza.
In order to retaliate against the attacks of the “Al-Aqsa Storm”, to compensate for its defeat and stop the resistance operations, this regime, with the support of the United States and some Western countries, has closed the crossings of the Gaza Strip and is bombarding this area. These crimes caused the authorities of Tel Aviv to be presented to the International Court of Justice on the charge of “genocide”.