• By Mayukh Debnath
  • Wed, 11 Oct 2023 08:26 AM (IST)
  • Source:ANI
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Israel-Hamas War: An aircraft carrying American weapons landed at the Nevatim Airbase in southern Israel on Tuesday evening (local time), the Israel Defence Forces informed while hailing military ties between Israel and the US. This came as the raging armed conflict between Israel and Palestinian militant outfit Hamas entered its fifth day. The IDF, however, did not reveal the nature of armaments it received from Washington. 

"The first plane carrying U.S. armaments has since arrived at the Nevatim Airbase in southern Israel this evening. The cooperation between our militaries is a key part of ensuring regional security and stability in times of war," the IDF said in a post on social media platform X (formerly Twitter).

Meanwhile, Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu held a telephone conversation with US President Biden for the third time. "I told him (Biden) that Hamas is worse than ISIS - and that they should be treated that way," Netanyahu posted on X. Biden reiterated that the "US stands by Israel" and "fully supports its right to defend itself", the Israeli PM said while thanking him for "unreserved support".

"Since our last conversation, the scale of this evil has only grown. They abducted dozens of children, burned them and executed them. They cut off the heads of soldiers, they murdered the young people who were celebrating at a festival in the wild...We have not seen such barbarism in the entire history of the State of Israel," Netanyahu stated.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is slated to leave for Israel on Wednesday to engage Washington's "Israeli partners directly about the situation on the ground and to navigate how the US can continue to support them", as per the US State Department.

"The secretary looks forward to meeting with senior leaders in the Israeli government and continuing the discussions he and the president have been having with them since the initial attacks on Saturday," State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said.


(With inputs from ANI)