Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., slammed the Biden administration Wednesday for pausing Israeli military aid over concerns that the country is planning to launch a full-scale assault in the southern Gaza city of Rafah.

“If we stop weapons necessary to destroy the enemies of the state of Israel at a time of great peril, we will pay a price,” Graham said during a Senate Appropriations Defense subcommittee hearing, according to the Washington Examiner. “This is obscene. It is absurd. Give Israel what they need to fight the war they can’t afford to lose. This is Hiroshima and Nagasaki on steroids.”

At the hearing, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin confirmed that the Biden administration had paused, but not canceled, a shipment of bombs to Israel last week, the outlet reported.

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