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Top Israeli officials to meet with US national security adviser Jake Sullivan on Thursday

Top Israeli officials to meet with US national security adviser Jake Sullivan on Thursday

The meeting comes amid new tensions with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu.

Senior administration officials told ABC News that Netanyahu’s top advisers – Israel’s national security adviser Tzachi Hanegbi and Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer – were traveling from Israel to Washington to meet with the National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan at the White House on Thursday.

The move comes amid renewed tensions between the Biden administration and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over a video he made in which he complained about the United States blocking arms shipments to the part of the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza – a claim the United States denies.

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant will also meet with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in the coming days.

But another high-level meeting focused on Israel’s security, including the Iranian threat, was canceled by the United States, according to administration officials. The United States is considering rescheduling it. This is a formal meeting with many people led by Sullivan and Hanegbi.

While Biden administration officials say that high-level meeting was never fully finalized as planned, other White House sources say there was frustration over the video of Netanyahu and that had an impact on the decision not to hold the meeting.

Administration officials said what Netanyahu said in his video is “irrelevant,” no other country supports Israel more than the United States, and the United States has only suspended one shipment of 2,000-pound bombs, fearing that the inaccurate weapons could cause many civilian deaths, but that everything else would still sink.

A senior source claims Netanyahu released the video in order to take credit for further arms deliveries to Israel and take that credit away from Defense Minister Gallant.

ABC News’ Matt Gutman and Shannon Crawford contributed to this report.