Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, slammed President Joe Biden’s threat to withhold weapons and artillery shells from Israel if the country invades the city of Rafah as “abhorrent” in an interview with Newsmax on Thursday.
Biden said on Wednesday that the U.S. would not provide Israel with “artillery shells” or other munitions to Israel if the country’s military begins a ground offensive in Rafah, a city located in the south of Gaza that currently holds about 1 million people, many of whom fled there for safety.
“Civilians have been killed in Gaza as a consequence of those bombs and other ways in which they [Israel] go after population centers,” Biden said on CNN.
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