Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked President Trump for the shipments of 2,000-pound bombs that the Biden administration held up.
“Thank you, President Trump, for keeping your promise to give Israel the tools it needs to defend itself, to confront our common enemies and to secure a future of peace and prosperity,” Netanyahu said in this video address.
Last May, the Biden administration paused shipments of the bombs over concerns over attacks on civilians in Rafah. According to Axios, “1,800 MK-84 bombs, which were held in storage in the U.S., will be put on a ship and delivered to Israel in the coming days.”
President Trump said on Truth Social that these “were ordered and paid for by Israel.”
Meanwhile, the U.S. Department of State issued a memo halting aid to Ukraine but Ukrainian President Zelensky says that is not true and that U.S. aid “has been stopped.”
