The White House rebuffed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday, saying his “incorrect” claims that the U.S. is withholding weapons deliveries are “vexing” the administration.
National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby stated the allegations by Netanyahu on Tuesday “were deeply disappointing and certainly vexing to us given the amount of support that we have and will continue to provide Prime Minister Netanyahu.”
Asked why Netanyahu would make such a declare, Kirby stated, “You’d have to talk to the prime minister about what prompted him to do that.”
“It was vexing and disappointing to us as much as it was incorrect, so difficult to know exactly what was on his mind,” he added.
Netanyahu stated in a video posted on X that it’s “inconceivable that in the past few months, the administration has been withholding weapons and ammunition to Israel.”
Kirby stated the Biden administration has made it “abundantly clear” to Israel “our deep disappointment in the statements expressed in that video and our concerns over the accuracy in the statements made.”
In the wake of the row, Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, reported {that a} bilateral assembly between U.S. and Israeli delegations in Washington was downgraded to incorporate solely a gathering of the nations’ nationwide safety advisors.
Speaking concerning the assembly’s reported discount in stature, Kirby confirmed that National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan will meet later Thursday together with his Israeli counterpart, Tzachi Hanegbi, and Israel’s Minister of Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer.
“It’ll be a wide-ranging discussion, I think you can imagine about everything that’s going on with the Gaza war, with our support to Israel, with our efforts to get a better sense of how they’re continuing to prosecute the operations against Hamas, as well as continuing to talk about the importance of closing on this deal,” he stated.
Israel, which has flouted a UN Security Council decision demanding an instantaneous cease-fire within the Gaza Strip, has confronted worldwide condemnation amid its greater than eight-month offensive on the coastal enclave.
More than 37,350 Palestinians have since been killed in Gaza, most of them girls and kids, and over 85,400 others injured, based on native well being authorities. A cross-border raid led by Hamas killed lower than 1,200 individuals.
The Israeli warfare has left huge tracts of Gaza in ruins amid sweeping restrictions on the supply of badly wanted worldwide humanitarian help.
Israel is accused of genocide on the International Court of Justice, whose newest ruling ordered it to instantly halt its operation within the southern metropolis of Rafah, the place greater than 1 million Palestinians had sought refuge. Israel invaded the southern metropolis on May 6. Hostilities stay ongoing there, and elsewhere in Gaza.
Source: www.anews.com.tr