The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announces the sale of weapons 7 billion dollars to Israel after Congress banned the initial deal

The Trump administration announced the sale of $ 7 billion in weapons to Israel, including munitions and missiles, a few days after Congress prevented a first deal.

The Foreign Ministry said on Friday that it had approved 6.75 billion dollars of ammunition, guidance tools, and supporting victory and ammunition, including small diameter bombs 2,166 GBU-39/B, for sale to Israel. In the other part of the package, the United States sends 3000 HelFire missiles and other estimated costs of $ 660 million.

Missile delivery operations are scheduled to start in 2028.

“The proposed sale improves Israel’s ability to meet the current and future threats, enhance the nation’s defense, and works as a deterrent for regional threats,” said the US Defense Cooperation Agency (DSCA) in the press statement. “Israel has already has these weapons in its stock and will not have difficulty absorbing this device in its armed forces.”

Arms sales came just two days after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Washington visited and held a joint press conference with President Trump. The deal is the first sale of billions of weapons to Israel under the current administration.

Representative Gregory Mix (DN.Y.), a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the House of Representatives, criticized the Trump administration to overcome Congress and immediately start selling weapons.

Mix said in a statement on Friday: “This step is another process of damage from Donald Trump from Congress” legal and legal supervision. “

The first four legislators in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives can stop weapons sales to US allies if they are estimated at a certain amount.

Congress put a comment on a $ 1 billion weapons package to Israel earlier this week, which was reported that included 4,700 bomb 1,000 pounds and armored bulldozers in Catpeberler. After the transfer of weapons stopped, Mix said he would agree to the request when he is comfortable with the responses he requests from the current administration.

“This is not a position – Biden, especially Trump – where the king comes and says:” This is what I want, and they do it automatically, “said a Democrat in New York to Hill, adding,” In this case, because Prime Minister Netanyahu is here, you want to make it look Something.

“No. I will do the job that has been in the right,” and continued.