{"id":271646,"date":"2024-08-19T12:00:25","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T11:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=271646"},"modified":"2024-09-23T14:38:33","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T13:38:33","slug":"incomprehensible-u-s-approves-20-billion-in-new-arms-for-israel-as-gaza-death-toll-tops-40000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/08\/incomprehensible-u-s-approves-20-billion-in-new-arms-for-israel-as-gaza-death-toll-tops-40000\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIncomprehensible\u201d: U.S. Approves $20 Billion in New Arms for Israel as Gaza Death Toll Tops 40,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>15 Aug 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\">Health officials in Gaza said today that the official death toll from Israel&#8217;s 10-month war has topped 40,000, though that is believed to be a vast undercount of the true figure. The grim milestone was reached just days after the Biden administration greenlit $20 billion in additional weapons sales to Israel, including 50 F-15 fighter jets, tank ammunition, mortar rounds, tactical vehicles and advanced air-to-air missiles. The U.S. approved the sales despite growing calls for an arms embargo on Israel. &#8220;This is just a continuation of a policy that has been going on now for 10 months of the U.S. providing to Israel all the arms that it requests,&#8221; says Josh Paul, a veteran State Department official who worked on arms deals and resigned in protest over Gaza policy in October. <em>&#8220;It is a dark day for American foreign policy.&#8221;<\/em> We also speak with Jan Egeland, the secretary general of the Norwegian Refugee Council, who says it&#8217;s &#8220;<em>incomprehensible<\/em>&#8221; that the U.S. keeps supplying Israel with weapons. &#8220;There should be no more arms going into that place before there is a ceasefire.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;Incomprehensible&quot;: U.S. Approves $20 Billion in New Arms for Israel as Gaza Death Toll Tops 40,000\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xCtywovwpx8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>15 Aug 2024 &#8211; Health officials in Gaza said today that the official death toll from Israel&#8217;s 10-month genocide has topped 40,000&#8211;though that is believed to be a vast undercount&#8211;just days after the Biden administration greenlit $20 billion in additional weapons sales to Israel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[1161,1104,87,865,88,767,427,2159,70,1594,1025],"class_list":["post-271646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-video-clips","tag-arms-industry","tag-arms-trade","tag-gaza","tag-genocide","tag-israel","tag-middle-east","tag-palestine","tag-rogue-states","tag-usa","tag-war-economy","tag-west-bank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271647,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271646\/revisions\/271647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}