The US announced it was sending military support to Israel and strengthening its naval and air force presence in the region amid widespread condemnation of the Hamas attack on Israeli civilians, and as the UN warned the region was on a “dangerous precipice”.
Joe Biden told Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday that “additional assistance for the Israel Defence Forces is now on its way to Israel with more to follow over the coming days”, according to a White House account of the conversation. The US defence secretary, Lloyd Austin, said the military support would include “equipment and resources, including munitions”.
