Israeli media claimed that US President Joe Biden’s decision to suspend ammunition shipments to Israel may push the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) to become more stringent in ceasefire and prisoner exchange negotiations.
She pointed out that Israeli fears are mounting about the possibility that the new American position will allow the arms export embargo to turn into a snowball that includes other Western countries.
Biden had warned that his country would stop supplying weapons to Israel if it launched a major military operation in Rafah, in what appeared to be public conditions for the first time announced by the American president for continuing American military support for Israel.
In this context, the Israeli channel “Kan 11” quoted senior Israeli officials who spoke with their American counterparts as saying that “preventing the provision of precision munitions to us may give strength to Hamas, especially in this period, at a time when the negotiations are progressing and have reached a critical point, and this may constitute a danger.” On the deal.”
They added, “This unprecedented American step includes additional countries that are considering stopping or delaying their security exports to Israel, such as Britain and other European countries.”
In the same context, the former head of the Israeli Military Intelligence Division described the falsity of Biden’s decision as sad, noting that Israel had begun the war with “the utmost levels of legitimacy and American support.”
Ziv added to Israeli Channel 12, “Now the situation has not only changed, but it seems that the United States – and we do not know this precisely – is providing guarantees to Hamas.”
As for Knesset member from the ruling Likud Party, Tali Gottlieb, she said that Israel has inaccurate missiles, “and perhaps instead of using an accurate missile and blowing up a specific room, we will use our inaccurate missiles, and simply blow up 10 buildings.”
Gottlieb added during a Knesset session, “I stood here and told you three months ago that the United States is not a friend of Israel.”
In turn, Rafif Drucker, presenter of political programs on the Israeli Channel 13, said that the leader of the Hamas movement in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, “is the one who will choose whether a small defeat or a big defeat will befall us.”
Drucker added, “We were convinced that Hamas practiced deception and illogical matters in the negotiations, but when you look at the end, this is not entirely the case. The negotiations collapsed and the delegation returned from Cairo, and it is nonsense to say otherwise.”