US President Donald Trump confirms that he has lifted the hold put in place by former president Joe Biden on a shipment of 2,000-pound bombs for Israel.
“A lot of things that were ordered and paid for by Israel, but have not been sent by Biden, are on their way!” Trump writes on Truth Social.
The post suggests that there were more weapon shipments upheld, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed.
The Biden administration adamantly asserted that only the 2,000 lb bombs were withheld over concerns that Israel would use them in densely populated parts of Gaza but that all other shipments were being processed.
Biden officials did acknowledge, though, that they stopped fast-tracking weapons later on in the war, requiring each transfer to go through the usual approval process, as is the case for other countries, including Ukraine.
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