{"id":211121,"date":"2025-12-30T08:48:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T08:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/211121\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T08:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T08:48:08","slug":"us-authorizes-8b-in-military-aid-to-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/211121\/","title":{"rendered":"US authorizes $8B in military aid to Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                            2025-12-30T07:43:04+00:00<\/p>\n<p>                                    font<\/p>\n<p>                                            Enable Reading Mode<\/p>\n<p>\n                                        A-<br \/>\n                                        A<br \/>\n                                        A+\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>Shafaq News\u2013 Washington<\/p>\n<p>The United States approved an $8.57 billion arms sale to Israel,<br \/>\nincluding 25 F-15 fighter jets and advanced air-to-air missiles, the US<br \/>\nDepartment of War said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.war.gov\/News\/Contracts\/Contract\/Article\/4368246\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">statement<\/a>, the contract covers the design, integration,<br \/>\nmodification, testing, and production of the aircrafts for the Israeli Air<br \/>\nForce. It also includes an option for Israel to purchase an additional 25<br \/>\nF-15IA jets.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon described the package as part of US foreign military sales<br \/>\nto Israel.<\/p>\n<p>The United States has long been Israel\u2019s largest weapons supplier. In<br \/>\nrecent months, pro-Palestinian and anti-war demonstrators have staged protests<br \/>\nnationwide, calling on Washington to end military support amid Israel\u2019s<br \/>\ncampaign in Gaza, which left 71,266 Palestinians dead and 171,219 wounded,<br \/>\naccording to the Gaza-run Health Ministry. <\/p>\n<p>Those calls, however, have not led to policy changes under either President<br \/>\nDonald Trump\u2019s administration or that of former president Joe Biden, whose<br \/>\nadministration <a href=\"https:\/\/shafaq.com\/en\/World\/US-approves-20-billion-in-arms-sales-to-Israel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">approved<\/a> a $20 billion arms sale to Israel in August 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2025-12-30T07:43:04+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News\u2013 Washington The United States approved an $8.57 billion&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[12196,50,85,46,117659,43,208,117658],"class_list":["post-211121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-breaking","tag-gaza","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-military-aid","tag-news","tag-us","tag-us-authorizes-8b-in-military-aid-to-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}