President Joe Biden said he will halt weapon shipments to Israel if it launches a ground invasion on Rafah, the southernmost city in Gaza where approximately 1.3 million people are sheltering.
“If they go into Rafah, I’m not supplying the weapons that have been used historically to deal with Rafah, to deal with the cities — that deal with that problem,” Biden told CNN on Wednesday.
“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,” he said. “But it’s — it’s just wrong.”
It is the first time that Biden has articulated any sort of restrictions on U.S. arms shipments to Israel in this war.
For seven months, as the death toll in Gaza climbed to more than 34,000 and most of its population became displaced, Biden publicly refused to place conditions on U.S. military support for Israel’s war on Hamas, even as he publicly urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to protect civilians in Gaza and approved airdropping aid to a starving population.








