Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday released a statement suggesting that the Biden White House was withholding critical weapons and ammunition amid Israel’s ongoing war with the terror group Hamas.
While thanking the United States for its support following October 7 terrorist attack, the Israeli prime minister said that “four months ago, there was a dramatic decrease in the munitions coming to Israel from the US. For long weeks, we turned to our American friends and requested that the shipments be expedited.”
“We did this time and again. We did so at the highest levels, and at all levels, and I want to emphasize – we did so behind closed doors,” Netanyahu added.
The Biden administration has been holding back much-need ammunition as Israeli ground offensive against terrorists in Gaza continues for more than eight months.
“We received all sorts of explanations, but one thing we did not receive; the basic situation did not change,” the Israeli leader disclosed. “Certain items arrived sporadically but the munitions at large remained behind.”
The IDF faces a urban battlefield infested with fortified terror tunnels and underground bases, built by Hamas using billions of dollars diverted from foreign humanitarian aid.
The Israeli news website YNET published the excerpts of Netanyahu’s statement:
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said again on Sunday that weapon shipments from the U.S. have been held back despite U.S. claims his accusations were incorrect.”There was a dramatic drop in the supply of munitions coming from the United States to Israel over the past four months. We reached out to our American friends for weeks, requesting to expedite the shipments,” Netanyahu said to cameras, at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting.“We did this repeatedly, at the highest levels and I want to make things clear — we did this behind closed doors. We received various explanations, but the basic situation has not changed. Certain shipments trickled in, but the bulk of the munitions was left behind,” he said.”After months during which the situation was static, I decided to make it public,” Netanyahu said. “I did this based on years of experience and knowing this step was essential to release the bottleneck. I anticipated it would involve personal attacks against me both from within and without,” Netanyahu said. “I’m willing to endure personal attacks for the sake of Israel’s security,” he added.
On Tuesday, Netanyahu angered the Biden White House by suggesting that “the administration has been withholding weapons and ammunitions to Israel” in the middle of the war. The Biden administration ‘strongly denied’ the Israeli prime minister’s claim. “We genuinely do not know what he’s talking about,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre declared Wednesday.
The damning revelation comes as Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group has intensified cross-border rocket attacks and threatens to launch an all-out war on Israel’s northern border.
Nearly four years after a massive explosion in Hezbollah weapons depot in Beirut port killed hundreds of Lebanese civilians and wounded thousand others, Iran-backed terrorist group is using country’s main airport for hoard weapons and explosives.
Hezbollah was using the Beirut international airport as a weapons dump, the British newspaper Telegraph reported, citing local whistleblowers. “Hezbollah is storing huge quantities of Iranian weapons, missiles, and explosives in Beirut’s main civilian airport, according to airport whistleblowers,” the daily reported.
Lebanese airport officials were reportedly turning a blind eye to Hezbollah terrorists bringing in Iranian-made weaponry. “Terrorists pass through ‘bribed’ customs officers unchallenged with large amounts of Iranian weaponry, the Telegraph added.
The reports on Hezbollah’s use of Beirut’s main airport for terrorist activities are not new. In December 2022, the Legal Insurrection noted that Iran-backed terrorist group was “hiding underground precision missile production facilities close to Beirut’s international airport.”
The Telegraph reports:
The cache allegedly includes Iranian-made Falaq unguided artillery rockets, Fateh-110 short-range missiles, road-mobile ballistic missiles and M-600 missiles with ranges of over 150 to 200 miles.Also at the airport is the AT-14 Kornet, laser-guided anti-tank guided missiles (ATGM), huge quantities of Burkan short-range ballistic missile and explosive RDX, a toxic white powder also known as cyclonite or hexagon.The disclosures will raise fears that the Rafic Hariri airport, just four miles from the city centre, could become a major military target.One airport worker, speaking to The Telegraph on condition of anonymity, said: “This is extremely serious, mysterious large boxes arriving on direct flights from Iran are a sign that things got worse.“When they started to come through the airport, my friends and I were scared because we knew that there was something strange going on.”
The IDF continued to press ahead in Rafah terrorist stronghold. “IDF troops are continuing intelligence-based, targeted operations in the Rafah area,” the Israeli military said in a press release Sunday. “Over the past day, the troops located weaponry, alongside tunnel shafts and underground terrorist infrastructure in the area.”
The Israeli armed forces were also conducting operations to degrade Hamas’s terrorist capacities in central Gaza. “Over the past day, IDF troops in central Gaza continued to operate against terrorist infrastructure, locate weaponry, and eliminate armed terrorist cells. Moreover, the troops eliminated terrorists in close-quarters combat and through the use of sniper and drone fire,” the press statement said.
The IDF operation coincides with Hamas’s efforts to recruit teenage boys in Gaza to compensate for massive losses suffered by its terrorist fighting force. “Hamas is making a comeback to regain control of Khan Yunis as well as recruiting new fighters from young adolescents in the 18-year-old range both in southern and northern Gaza,” the Jerusalem Post reported. Sunday.
The Israeli Air Force (IAF) conducted strikes against Hamas terror targets across Gaza. “Over the past day, the IAF struck dozens of terror targets throughout the Gaza Strip, including military structures, terrorists and terrorist infrastructure,” the IDF added.
The IAF also hit a Hezbollah site in response to surging cross-border rocket and drone attacks. On Saturday evening, Israeli “fighter jets struck a Hezbollah military structure and observation post in the area of Kfarkela,” the military said in a separate statement Sunday.
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