After US President Joe Biden's moving speech, which promised Israel assistance so that it could defend itself, the IDF reports that American planes have arrived in Israel in recent days loaded with ammunition and weapons, which will allow Israel breathing air to deal with the war in Gaza, without fear of being left without enough munitions in case of war in the northern arena as well.
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The army defines the American aid as "unprecedented," and as part of it, Israel will receive air, ground and other munitions. In an almost unprecedented move, Israel asked the United States to use its emergency warehouses stationed in Israel, and even fill the same warehouses that the Americans had shallow for the war in Ukraine. It should be noted that these are emergency depots of American weapons that were stationed in Israel after the Yom Kippur War in order to serve as a reserve in a real emergency, similar to the one we are in now.
Jerusalem and the campus in Tel Aviv are waiting for official approval from the Americans to open these emergency warehouses, and it is believed that approval will arrive soon. The army notes that since the Yom Kippur War, Israel has not received such aid from the United States, neither in pace nor in quantity of munitions.
Aircraft carrier "Ford", photo: EPA
As part of the American aid, two Iron Dome batteries sold to the Americans in order to strengthen the air defense system are expected to arrive in Israel in the coming days, along with an additional stock of interceptor missiles, Tamirim. The IDF explains that Israel does not need American stocks in the war with Gaza alone, but the army does not want to reach a situation of an arms economy in the war in the south so as not to be caught with a low level of inventories in the event of a war in the northern arena.
Israel hopes that the American aid, and the projection of power through two aircraft carriers making their way to the Middle East, combined with Biden's threat, will increase Israeli deterrence in the north and allow Israel not to be dragged into war in this arena so that it can focus on the war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
However, since the beginning of the fighting, not a single day has been recorded without incidents on the northern border, and these are only getting worse and causing casualties on the Israeli side. The IDF already defines the reality in the north as "days of battle," and does not rule out the possibility that Israel will eventually be dragged into a campaign in the north.
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