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Rabat — US President Joe Biden is receiving backlash as the US Department informally notified Congress of the country’s intention to sell $8 billion in arms to Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF).
CNN quoted a source familiar with the matter, saying that the State Department sent an informal notification to the House Foreign Affairs Committee and Senate Foreign Relations Committees on Friday.
The notification came just a few weeks before Biden’s administration leaves office, which will be taken over by President-elect Donald Trump, another major supporter of Israel. It also comes as the US helped broker ceasefire talks in Qatar on Friday, to put an end to the Gaza genocide that they have consistently funded.
According to reports, Benjamin Netanyahu has accused Biden’s administration of “withholding weapons to Israel.”
Biden rejected the accusations, saying they are “importantly completely untrue.”
Despite pressure from the international community, the US continues to position itself as the primary supporter of the IOF and its genocidal war targeting civilians in Gaza.
Statistics from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute said the US has spent over $22 billion supporting IOF’s operations including in Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria.
Data shows the US supplied 69% of IOF’s arms from 2019 to 2023. This represents an increase of 78%.
America’s reported decision to allow another arms deal was met, like the previous ones, with uproar from the international community as to the immorality of the exchange.
“Biden and the US want $8 billion arms sales to Israel now amid this concern raised by the United Nations for the well-being of children, hospitals, hospital directors, health care workers,” one X user said.
The Watch Tower platform on X added to the discourse by recalling IOF’s operations, which included demolishing a residential complex in Gaza.
“Meanwhile, Joe Biden plans $8 billion arms sales to Israel in the last 2 weeks of his administration,” Watch Tower said.
In just three days, IOF has killed 200 Palestinians. The total number of Palestinians killed in the genocide since October 2023 reached at least 45,805 people, with some 109,064 injured.
The actual numbers are projected to be higher as thousands of victims are still trapped under the rubble and presumed dead.
