The Biden administration is reportedly advancing a sale of weapons, worth nearly $700 million, to Israel as its military furthers its plan of ethnic cleansing in north Gaza and despite the ceasefire agreement Israel reached with Hezbollah this week.

As first reported by Financial Times, which cited people familiar with the sale, the administration has notified Congress that it is moving forward with a $680 million arms sale that includes thousands of JDAMs and 615 small diameter bombs — both of which Israel has used extensively in attacks against Palestinians in Gaza that experts have said are war crimes.

The additional weapons sale comes on top of the record $18 billion in military aid the Biden administration already sent in the first year of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, as well as at least over a hundred weapons transfers not publicly reported by the administration.

It also comes as the U.S. is slated to send $20 billion in weapons to Israel, including fighter jets, JDAMs, and tank ammunition, among other weapons. Last week, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) brought a set of resolutions to block three parts of the sale, totalling just $1 billion of the deal, but the legislation only got the approval of about a fifth of the Senate.

U.S. officials have said that the weapons transfer is not related to the ceasefire agreement struck this week in Lebanon, which began early Wednesday morning. However, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed, per Financial Times, that the weapons deal was only struck to make the deal happen, while also saying that there have been “big delays in weapons and munitions deliveries,” without evidence.

U.S. officials have denied the delays. In October, the Biden........

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