Pressure on Israel’s allies to halt the flow of arms has reached a boiling point – why is the US still sending and have any countries stopped?

Mounting pressure on Israel’s allies to halt arms supplies has reached boiling point after last week’s attack on a World Central Kitchen convoy in Gaza that killed seven aid workers.

But despite urging an immediate ceasefire and warning about the possible loss of American support, Joe Biden has so far balked at conditioning weapons supplies on future Israeli behaviour – a step now advocated by some fellow Democrats.

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