US says it will not limit arms transfers to Israel after some aid improvements to Gaza

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Trump has promised to end the wars in the Middle East without saying how. He was a staunch defender of Israel during his previous term, and Netanyahu says they have spoken three times since Trump won the White House last week.

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00:00The Biden administration said that Israel made good but limited progress in increasing

00:06the flow of humanitarian aid to Gaza and that it therefore would not limit arms transfers

00:12to Israel as it threatened to do a month ago.

00:17The U.S. had initially set a deadline last month for Israel to send more food and aid

00:22into Gaza or risk scaled-back military support.

00:26However, relief groups say conditions are worse than at any point in the 13-month-old

00:31war.

00:32The decision from the U.S., Israel's key ally and largest provider of arms and other military

00:37aid, comes despite aid organizations declaring that Israel has failed to meet U.S. demands

00:43to allow greater humanitarian access to the Gaza Strip.

00:47Eight international aid groups said in a report that Israel failed to meet U.S. criteria and

00:52in fact took steps that dramatically worsened the situation on the ground, particularly

00:57in northern Gaza.

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