The value of individual trades has fallen below the amount of money, which trades that have exceeded must be reported to Congress.
The US administration has continued to sell weapons and ammunition to Israel in complete silence, he writes The Washington Post. According to the newspaper, the US authorities had told members of Congress about this in a classified report.
Only two arms sales have been made public since the terrorist attack by Hamas in October. However, the United States has sold various bombs to Israel, among other things, without the administration having told about them publicly.
This has been possible because the value of the individual trades has fallen below the amount of money, which trades that have exceeded must be reported to Congress.
In total, there have been more than a hundred trade events of this kind, although the country’s administration has recently increased its public criticism of Israel.
Exact information on how many weapons and ammunition have been sold to Israel is not available, according to the newspaper. The lack of public information also means that it is not clear how many of the recent arms sales are part of routine trade between the US and Israel, and how many are the result of Israel’s attack on Gaza.
“Not possible without US support”
A Democratic congressman Jason Crow according to the president Joe Biden the administration should follow the existing criteria in its arms sales. According to them, for example, the state should not export weapons or weapons to areas where they can probably be used to kill civilians or destroy civilian infrastructure.
– This is an exceptionally large number of deals in a fairly short period of time, which strongly suggests that an Israeli attack would not be possible in the long term without US support, said the former high-ranking official of the Biden administration and the current president of the refugee organization Refugees International Jeremy Konyndyk.
A spokesperson for the US State Department Matt Miller reported that the Biden administration has followed existing and congressional operating models. According to Miller, the administration has, among other things, been in contact with Congress regarding arms deliveries to Israel more than 200 times since the Hamas attack.
According to the Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health, more than 30,700 people have died and well over 72,000 have been wounded in almost five months of Israeli airstrikes and attacks on Gaza.