Shipments of high-payload bombs have already been halted, and Blinken said the sale of further weapons systems may be stopped if a full-scale offensive goes ahead. Plus, the growing threat posed by drug-resistant superbugs
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The US may suspend the sale of more weapons systems to Israel if it proceeds with a ground offensive in Rafah, the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, has said.
The US has already paused the shipment of 3,500, 2,000lb and 500lb high-payload bombs amid concerns over the scale of civilian casualties in Israel’s war in Gaza. Blinken highlighted the “horrible loss of life of innocent civilians” in some of the Biden administration’s strongest rhetoric so far. More than 35,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, have been killed since the war began.
Speaking to NBC and CBS News, Blinken said Joe Biden remained committed to helping Israel defend itself, with the US only presently withholding high-payload bombs. But he warned that could expand if Israel launched a full-scale attack on the southern city where more than 1.2 million Palestinians have sheltered.Rise of drug-resistant superbugs could make Covid pandemic look ‘minor’, expert warns
The growing global threat posed by superbugs resistant to existing drugs will make the Covid pandemic “look minor”, the UK’s special envoy on antimicrobial resistance (AMR), Prof Dame Sally Davies, has warned.
