Days of Palestine, Reports –US has supplied Hellfire missiles Israeli occupation requested during the war on Gaza Strip, and more are on the way, Israeli media reported.
Washington halted a transfer of the missiles in mid-August, with the State Department saying that weapons shipments to ‘Israel’ would be undergoing additional review due to the war on the Gaza Strip.
Supplies of ammunition used by Israeli tanks were also affected by the review procedures, but those and other affected supplies have also now been resumed, Times of Israel said.
The US government is further said to have made clear to its Israeli counterparts that the review process was not a signal of disapproval, confirming a report on Israeli TV Channel 10 news last month.
Channel 10 quoted a senior Israeli official as saying ‘Israel’ had been assured that the suspension of the supplies “was just bureaucracy.”
The US State Department had said that weapons shipments to the Israeli occupation would be undergoing additional review due to the Israeli war on Gaza.
Spokeswoman Marie Harf described an inter-agency process, including the Pentagon, White House and State Department, to review such transfers saying: “There has been no change in policy regarding Israeli security assistance.”
“It is not an unusual step,” Harf said. “The general principle is that when there is an ongoing crisis or conflict in which we are providing weapons, we would take an additional look at it,” she said.
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