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Israel’s Defense Ministry said on 9 July that a U.S. shipment of dozens of Caterpillar D9 bulldozers and other ground-force equipment was unloaded at Haifa Port after months of delay. The armored bulldozers were immediately transferred to an Israel Defense Forces logistics hub for retrofitting, the ministry added. The sale had been frozen by the Biden administration in November 2024 over concerns that the D9s were being used to demolish homes in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. The Trump administration, which took office in January, reversed that decision, clearing the export and allowing the vessels to sail. The bulldozers form part of what the ministry calls the largest resupply effort in Israel’s history: more than 100,000 tons of U.S. military materiel delivered in 870 flights and 144 sea shipments since the Gaza war erupted in October 2023.
“These machines are not tools of construction – they are tools of destruction, dispossession, ethnic cleansing, and apartheid,” said @EdAhmedMitchell, @CAIRNational’s national deputy director, in a statement. https://t.co/iocU3meMrv
“Sending bulldozers that will be used to destroy more Palestinian homes and steal more Palestinian land deepens our nation’s moral and legal culpability in the Israeli occupation’s crimes,” said @EdAhmedMitchell, @CAIRNational’s national deputy director, in a statement. https://t.co/iocU3meeBX
“The Trump administration must stop using American taxpayer dollars, American weapons and American equipment to fund the Israeli government’s literal destruction of Palestinian life,” said @EdAhmedMitchell, @CAIRNational’s national deputy director, in a statement. https://t.co/iocU3meMrv
