According to the Washington Post, US President Joe Biden has approved a $735 million sale of precision-guided arms to Israel.

The planned sale was formally informed to Congress on May 5th, about a week before the current violence started, according to the report.

According to the paper, some of Biden's Democratic colleagues are now criticizing the deal.

"Allowing this planned sale of smart bombs to go through without placing pressure on Israel to consent to a truce would only enable more devastation," one Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee told the paper.