White House bizarrely REFUSES to comment hours after Israel carried out ... trends now

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre repeatedly refused to address Israel's attack on Iran, saying President Joe Biden's administration has no comment on the matter. 

Jean-Pierre, when she took to the podium at her daily press briefing, announced at the top: 'I know there's a lot a lot of interest in reports from the Middle East overnight, and we understand that. We get that. I'm going to say it now, though I know you all will will certainly ask me about it, that we do not have any comment on the reports at this time.'

She stuck to that stance despite repeated questions. 

'I'm not going to speak or speculate about any of the reports that are out there. I'm not going to comment. I'm just going to leave it there,' she told reporters.

American officials acknowledged they received an advance warning from Tel Aviv about the attack on a base in central Iran but there are reports the administration was refusing to comment on the matter because the White House doesn't want to get dragged into a war between Israel and Iran.

Jean-Pierre repeated the White House line that they do not want to see escalation in the region.   

'We have been very, very clear from here - from the beginning - that we do not want to see this conflict escalate,' she said.

The  administration has insisted it wasn't involved in the offensive. Biden had warned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to be cautious about retaliation, not wanting him to spark a war in the Middle East. 

Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, who is chairing a meeting of G7 countries, revealed the U.S. had given the rest of the alliance notice that they had gotten a head's up on the attack.

Tajani said American officials told G7 ministers that it had been 'informed at the last minute' by Israel about the drones it was sending into Iran. 'But there was no sharing of the attack by the U.S. It was a mere information.' 

A senior American official told the New York Times that Israel had notified the United States through multiple channels shortly before its attack against Iran. 

The official noted the attack was expected given that Israeli Prime

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