The US Department of Defense (the Pentagon) plans to send tens of thousands of 155 mm artillery shells to Israel, which were allocated to Ukraine from the US emergency stockpile, according to what the American website “Axios” reported on Thursday, October 19, 2023, citing three Israeli officials.

Officials explained that "the Pentagon plans to send tens of thousands of 155 mm artillery shells to Israel, which were allocated to Ukraine from the US emergency stockpile several months ago."

According to the American website, “The Israeli Ministry of Defense informed the Americans that it is in urgent need of artillery shells to prepare for the ground attack on Gaza, fearing a possible escalation by Hezbollah along the Israeli-Lebanese border.”

The website also reported that US officials "indicated that transferring missiles from Ukraine to Israel would not have an immediate impact on Ukraine's capability."

The Israeli Ministry of Defense recently received from the United States an initial batch of armored vehicles, replacing those it lost during the recent military escalation.

Before Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian left the Saudi city of Jeddah, he confirmed that the region had become a powder keg that could explode at any moment.

The Russian Foreign Ministry also announced that Moscow and Beijing intend to closely coordinate efforts regarding the escalation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

Since October 7, Israel has continued to launch intensive raids on Gaza, leaving thousands of civilians dead and wounded, and cutting off its supplies of water, electricity, food, and medicine. This sparked local and international warnings of a double humanitarian catastrophe, in parallel with intense Israeli raids and arrests in cities and towns of the occupied West Bank.

In response to “daily Israeli attacks against the Palestinian people and their sanctities,” Hamas and other Palestinian factions in Gaza launched Operation “Al-Aqsa Flood” on October 7, at the beginning of which they stormed Israeli settlements and military sites surrounding the Gaza Strip.