The US administration has suspended a shipment of bombs to Israel for the first time in the ongoing conflict with Hamas in Gaza, a senior official said amid mounting anger at the war’s impact on Palestinian civilians.
The suspension occurred last week over concerns that Israel was set to launch a full-scale assault on the city of Rafah, the senior administration official said. Israeli forces on Tuesday seized control of the Rafah border crossing, but that was played down by Washington as stopping short of the threatened city-wide assault.
