Netanyahu accuses Biden era’s ‘arms embargo’ for deaths of Israeli soldiers in Gaza

Detailing that ammunition shortage affected the military’s operation on ground, Netanyahu said, “At a certain stage, we didn’t have enough ammunition.” Though the Israeli prime minister acknowledged that casualties do occur in war but stressed that some Israeli soldiers deaths were avoidable.

While “part of that is what happens in war,” Netanyahu said, part of it stemmed from the fact that “at a certain stage, we didn’t have enough ammunition.”

The US-backed arms embargo ended once Republican leader Donald Trump became the president of the United States, Netanyahu said.

The Israeli prime minister did not directly name the former US President Joe Biden’s administration but highlighted that the “embargo” ended as soon as Trump returned to the White House, Times of Israel reported.

Previously, Netanyahu has repeatedly accused the Biden administration of applying an arms embargo on supplies to Israel. However, Biden had clarified and rejected instituting any arms embargo on Israel except for a batch of 2,000 pounds “bunker-buster” bombs.

Accusing the lack of ammunition at the battleground during the war in Gaza, Netanyahu said, “Heroes fell because they didn’t have the ammunition they needed And part of that absent ammunition was because of the embargo.”

The remains of the last Israeli hostage in Gaza, Ran Gvili, recently returned to the country which has cleared the way for the next and more challenging phase of its ceasefire with Hamas.