After Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited and spoke with U.S. President Donald Trump earlier this month – when Trump announced plans to seize Gaza for themselves and turn it into the so-called “Riviera of the Middle East” – days later the State Department, headed by Marco Rubio, announced that the U.S. would be providing over $7 billion worth of weaponry and 2,000 pounds bombs to Israel.
The purchase was made during the Biden administration but was withheld over concerns of increased civilian casualties. Trump said he released them to Israel “because they bought them.”
The Associated Press reported:
According to the State Department, two separate sales were sent to Congress on Friday. One is for $6.75 billion in an array of munitions, guidance kits and other related equipment. It includes 166 small-diameter bombs, 2,800 500-pound bombs, and thousands of guidance kits, fuses and other bomb components and support equipment. Those deliveries would begin this year.
The other arms package is for 3,000 Hellfire missiles and related equipment for an estimated cost of $660 million. Deliveries of the missiles are expected to begin in 2028 and their use will require additional training by the U.S. military.
Biden administration officials informally notified Congress about the sale last month. Officials at the time said some of the arms in the package could be sent from current U.S. stocks but the majority would take a year or several years to deliver.
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