NEWSWEEK
President Joe Biden admitted on Wednesday that U.S. bombs had been used to kill Palestinians in Gaza and said he would not supply Israel with bombs that could be used to attack the city of Rafah.
Biden made the comments in an interview with CNN following his decision last week to halt a shipment of 3,500 bombs to Israel due to concerns they could be used in a ground assault into Gaza.
“Civilians have been killed in Gaza as a consequence of those bombs and other ways in which they go after population centers,” Biden told CNN.
“I made it clear that if they go into Rafah — they haven’t gone in Rafah yet — if they go into Rafah, I’m not supplying the weapons that have been used historically to deal with Rafah, to deal with the cities, that deal with that problem,” the president said.
