The United States has stood by Israel as criticism over the war in Gaza has grown, but senior officials in the Biden administration have also displayed what appears to be a growing impatience over mass casualties inflicted on the Gazan population. More than 15,000 people have been killed in Gaza since Israel began its retaliatory war in response to the Oct. 7 killings of 1,200 people in Israel by Hamas and other groups.
Among the strongest warnings came from Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III, who has said that Israel faced “strategic defeat” if Palestinian civilians were not better protected.
At the same time, the United States continues to dispatch weapons and ammunition to Israel. Two U.S. officials told The New York Times on Saturday that the State Department was pushing through a government sale of 13,000 rounds of tank ammunition valued at more than $106 million to Israel, bypassing a congressional review process that is generally required for arms sales to any foreign nation.
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