U.S. says it doesn't know what Netanyahu is talking about after he attacks Biden for 'withholding weapons'

The United States says it has no idea what the Israeli prime minister is talking about.

The Biden administration on Tuesday rejected Benjamin Netanyahu's accusation that Washington had been "withholding weapons and ammunitions" from its close ally over the "past few months." The Israeli leader implied that this was hampering his military's ongoing offensive in Gaza, now focused on the southern city of Rafah.

"We genuinely do not know what he is talking about. We just don't,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said as she maintained that only one shipment of heavy bombs had been paused since the war began, while billions of dollars of arms have continued to flow into Israel.

The White House denied reports it had canceled a high-level meeting with Israeli officials on Iran after being enraged by Netanyahu's accusation. A White House official told NBC News the details of the meeting had not yet been finalized, "so nothing has been cancelled." But they said meetings with Israeli officials were being held throughout the week "on a range of topics."

"As we said in the briefing yesterday, we have no idea what the prime minister is talking about, but that’s not a reason for rescheduling a meeting," the official said.

Also Wednesday, the United Nations human rights office said that the laws of war were likely being "consistently violated" in the Israeli military's ongoing assault on the Palestinian enclave, citing the use of heavy bombs. That new assessment came as some focus was turning north to Israel's border with Lebanon, where both Israel and the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah have intensified their exchanges of fire and rhetoric while the U.S. has sought to avoid an all-out war.

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