Israel due to get billions of dollars of U.S. weapons despite pause on bombs

Billions of dollars worth of U.S. weaponry remains in the pipeline for Israel, despite the delay of one shipment of bombs and a review of others by President Joe Biden’s administration, concerned their use in an assault could wreak more devastation on Palestinian civilians.

The administration paused a shipment of 2,000-pound heavy bombs to Israel after reviewing the delivery of weapons that Israel might use for a major invasion of Rafah, a southern Gaza city where over 1 million…