US Secretary of Foreign Affairs Marco Rubio on Saturday late evening announced that The US will quickly provide Israel’s military assistance of $ 4 billion. According to the AFP report, TASR reports this.
“I signed a statement on the use of extraordinary powers to speed up the provision of the Israel military assistance for approximately $ 4 billion,” said Rubio. At the same time, he noted that the partial arms embargo, which was introduced during the reign of former President Joe Biden, was canceled.
President Donald Trump’s administration on Friday It also approved the sale of a large package of weapons of Israel worth almost $ 3 billion. Trump’s administration at the same She used extraordinary powers and bypassed the standard approval approval procedure, to speed up the sale.
Rubio signed the sale Bombs and heads worth $ 2.04 billion, other bombs and guideline kits worth $ 675.7 million and bulldozers worth $ 295 million, The US Agency for Defense-Security Cooperation was reported.
The Minister has announced that “there is An emergency situation that requires the immediate sale of the above -mentioned defense subjects and services to the Government of Israel in the interests of the United States National Security, thus abandoning the requirements of the Congress for review “.
