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Last Updated on August 1, 2024.

Washington – Win Without War Executive Director Sara Haghdoosti released the following statement responding to President Biden’s decision to unfreeze the transfer of 1,700 500-lb bombs to the Israeli government:

“We utterly condemn the Biden administration decision to transfer 1,700 500-lb. bombs to the Israeli government.

“We are dismayed because these bombs will almost certainly be used to kill more innocents in Gaza, where indiscriminate bombing continues and where a starvation crisis only worsens. And if they are not used there, they risk being used to terrible effect in Lebanon, where civilians would again bear the brunt of a disastrous possible war between Hezbollah and the Israeli government.

“We are perplexed because the White House is, yet again, using arms transfers to directly undermine its stated policy aims – both to secure a ceasefire and protect civilians in Gaza, and to avoid a full-scale war between Israel and Hezbollah that would devastate the region. Releasing this transfer signals to the Israeli government that, if ceasefire talks again stall, the war in Gaza can continue and that a massive conflict with Hezbollah can begin, with no real U.S. pushback.

“President Biden must reverse this decision, which makes no sense as politics or policy.”

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July 11, 2024