The State Department on Friday informed Congress that it had approved the sale of $6.75 billion of bombs, guidance kits and Hughes.
“The United States is committed to Israel’s security and is important to the US national interests in supporting Israel…” The US Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) said in a statement, Presstv reported.
Weapon sales is President Donald Trump’s latest effort to strengthen Israeli weapons stock. Shortly after he took office, he sent a 2,000-pound bomb to Israel to lift the hold.
Two separate sales were sent to Congress on Friday, according to the State Department. One is $6.75 billion in an array of ammunition, guidance kits and other related equipment.
This includes 166 small-diameter bombs, 2,800 500-pound bombs, thousands of guidance kits, fuses and other bomb components and support equipment. These delivery starts this year.
Another arm package is for 3,000 Hellfire missiles and related equipment, with an estimated cost of $660 million.
The decision comes after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the US to meet Trump.
Under former President Joe Biden, the United States provided Israel with $17.9 billion in military aid from October 2023, where the occupying government launched its war with Gaza in October 2024 alone. This figure was about six times as much as Washington’s daily annual military aid to the administration.
In January, several former US officials admitted that Israel could not commit war crimes in Gaza without the support of the US military.
Despite growing international criticism of the regime’s heinous crimes in Gaza, the US continues to provide military support to Israel, ignoring accusations that such relocations are complicit in the destruction of enclaves I’m doing it.
During the 15-month Israeli war with Gaza, more than 47,000 people were killed and 110,000 were injured in the besieged territory, most of which were children and women. Gaza’s population of 2.3 million has been displaced, and much of the besieged territory is in abandoned.
On January 15, the Israeli regime was forced to agree to a ceasefire agreement with the Palestinian resistance because it failed to achieve any of its war objectives, such as the “exclusion” of Hamas or the release of prisoners of war.
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