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The US plans to sell $8 billion worth of weapons to Israel

2025-01-05 21:35:00, Kosova & Bota CNA
The US plans to sell $8 billion worth of weapons to Israel
The President of the USA, Joe Biden

The US State Department has informed Congress of a planned $8 billion (€7.7 billion) arms sale to Israel as the US ally presses ahead with its war against Hamas in Gaza.

Some of the weapons in the package could be shipped through current US stockpiles, but most will take a year or several years to be delivered, according to two anonymous US officials.

The sale includes medium-range air-to-air missiles to help Israel defend against aerial threats, 155mm artillery shells for long-range targeting, Hellfire AGM-114 missiles, 500-pound bombs and other weaponry.

The arms package would add to a record of at least $17.9 billion (17.3 billion euros) in military aid that Washington has provided to Israel since the Gaza war began in October 2023.

The informal notification to Congress is not the final notification before a sale. Now the leaders of the House Foreign Affairs Committee or the Senate Foreign Relations Committee can review the package.

The informal notification to Congress is not the final notification before a sale. Now the leaders of the House Foreign Affairs Committee or the Senate Foreign Relations Committee can review the package.

The Biden administration has faced criticism for mounting Palestinian civilian casualties with demonstrations on college campuses and unsuccessful efforts in Congress to block sales of offensive weapons to Israel.

The US halted a shipment of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel in May over concerns about civilian casualties if the bombs were used during an attack on the southern city of Rafah.

The Biden administration has also demanded that Israel increase humanitarian aid to the enclave. But in November, citing some limited progress, she refused to limit arms transfers as she had threatened to do if the situation did not improve.





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