US President Joe Biden has given his most severe warning yet after Israel shelled Rafah on Thursday, warning that he will stop arms supplies if IDF continue ahead with a ground offensive into the city.
“If they go into Rafah, I’m not supplying the weapons that have been used… to deal with the cities,” Biden said. “We’re not gonna supply the weapons and the artillery shells that have been used.”
“Civilians have been killed in Gaza as a consequence of those bombs,” Biden said. “It’s just wrong.”
In response, Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations has expressed disappointment at Biden’s threat.
“This is a difficult and very disappointing statement to hear from a president to whom we have been grateful since the beginning of the war,” Gilad Erdan told Israeli public broadcaster Kan radio, in Israel’s first reaction to Biden’s warning.
