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(A7) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will visit Washington before the end of the month, senior US officials told Sky News Arabia on Monday.
The statement comes despite the fact that President Joe Biden told reporters several weeks ago that he has no plans to invite Netanyahu in the near future, due to the judicial reforms that his government is promoting.
Biden at the time offered harsh criticism of Israel, saying he is “very concerned” about the goings on in light of the judicial reform and adding, “They cannot continue down this road.”
Netanyahu later responded to Biden and said, “The alliance between Israel and the United States is unbreakable and always overcomes the occasional disagreements between us.”
He also stressed that “Israel is a sovereign country which makes its decisions by the will of its people and not based on pressures from abroad, including from the best of friends.”
In Monday’s report, Sky News Arabia also quoted a senior US government official who said that Hezbollah is providing Hamas with advanced missiles to strike Israel from Lebanon.
According to the report, which has no confirmation from other sources, US intelligence has information indicating that Hezbollah trained Hamas terrorists in the use of advanced rockets that would be fired towards Israeli territory.
The report further said that coordination is underway between the leadership of the Revolutionary Guards, the Assad regime and Hezbollah, to facilitate the arrival of thousands of Hamas personnel to Lebanon, with some of them undergoing training at Hezbollah centers in the eastern Beqaa region before being sent to southern Lebanon.
The US official told Sky News Arabia that “in coordination with the Israeli government, the Biden administration asked the Lebanese government to cooperate in discovering the location of Hamas operatives and their missile depots.”
