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The Biden administration has warned Israel that it faces possible punishment, including the potential stopping of US weapons transfers, if it does not take immediate action to let more humanitarian aid into Gaza.

A letter written jointly by Antony Blinken, the US secretary of state, and Lloyd Austin, the defence secretary, exhorts Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to ease humanitarian suffering in the territory by lifting restrictions on the entry of assistance within 30 days or face unspecified policy “implications”.

The four-page missive, dated 13 October, was sent to Yoav Gallant, the Israeli defence minister, and Ron Dermer, the strategic affairs minister, and came to light after being posted on social media by Barak Ravid, an Israeli journalist who works for Axios, after apparently being leaked.

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Edit: changed from NYT to Guardian. Same story, no paywall.

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[–] GrymEdm@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Nowhere did I say it was offensive. If you skipped the article and assumed, that's on you. Yes you are being pedantic because you're trying to discredit me on a technicality that does not have any merit to anyone who spends even 30 seconds reading the details I explicitly provide. By any reasonable definition it's a multi-billion dollar set of batteries that use missiles, and no one who reads the article thinks it's being used for offense.

Edit: I see that you changed the post to say it screams bias/agenda. My bias is against huge amounts of funding enabling the slaughter and starvation of some of the poorest and most desparate people in the world. Given that US military aid is at 17.9 billion since Oct. 7th, and the conservative death toll is over 42k + starvation, abuse, etc. that's not even hyperbole. My agenda with that post is to point out the escalation of US involvement which this deployment definitely is, and how it's happening simultaneous to the strongly worded letter. I'm fully willing to own both.