Sydney Morning Herald (The Age) / AP, Reuters | Lolita Baldor & Julia Frankel | 9 February 2025
Doesn’t matter which President is in the White House – murder continues – Mark
The Trump administration has approved weapon sales of more than $US7 billion ($11 billion) to Israel, including thousands of bombs, despite a Democratic lawmakers’ request that the sale be paused until he received more information.
The massive arms sale came just two days after Donald Trump met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Oval Office and is another step in Trump’s effort to bolster Israel’s weapons stocks. In late January, soon after he took office, he lifted the hold on sending 900-kilogram bombs to Israel.
The Biden administration had paused a shipment of the bombs over concerns about civilian casualties, particularly during an Israeli assault on Rafa in southern Gaza.
Trump told reporters that he released them to Israel, “because they bought them”.
According to the State Department, two sales were communicated to Congress yesterday.
One is for $US6.75 billion in an array of munitions, guidance kits and other related equipment. It includes 166 small–diameter bombs, 2800 227-kilogram bombs, and thousands of guidance kits, fuses and other bomb components and support equipment. Those deliveries would begin this year.
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