According to US media, Washington has approved $20 billion in weapon sales to Israel. The modern weaponry includes up to 50 F-15 fighter jets, up to 30 modern medium-range air-to-air missiles, tactical vehicles and a large number of tank and mortar shells. By giving Israel another carte blanche to continue the genocidal war in the Gaza Strip, the current Joe Biden administration has made it clear to the world that the US is also a direct participant in the massacre of Palestinians.

USA’s weapon for murdering Palestinians

It is clear that the delivery of fighter jets can take years; however, other weapons may soon arrive in Israel, including tank and mortar shells. The State Department announced that Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has approved the weapons sale. “The United States is committed to Israel’s security, and it is vital for US national interests to help Israel develop and maintain a strong self-defence capability. The proposed sale meets these goals”, the official press release states. The statement stresses that the weapons are aimed at increasing Israel’s ‘ability to defend itself’.

The Israeli military, using US weapons, has already killed almost 40,000 Palestinian civilians, including more than 16,400 children, since declaring war on Gaza on October 7. Even babies are not spared. The Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram has just reported on another crime by the Israeli military. Mohammed Abu al-Qumsan had just collected the birth certificate of his three-day-old twins when he received the news that the babies and their mother had been bombed in his apartment in Gaza. Footage of a distraught Abu al-Qumsan crying and falling, still holding the birth certificates, has been widely shared on social media, becoming the latest evidence of crimes committed by Israel and the US as a result of the war in the Palestinian territory.

According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, at least 115 babies born after the Israeli war in Gaza have been killed so far. The announcement came amid Israeli media........

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