{"id":266455,"date":"2026-01-31T03:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T03:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/266455\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T03:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T03:01:09","slug":"trump-administration-approves-6-67b-arms-sale-to-israel-amid-heightened-middle-east-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/266455\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration approves $6.67B arms sale to Israel amid heightened Middle East tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">The Trump administration has approved a new series of arms sales to Israel worth $6.67 billion, including Apache attack helicopters and light tactical vehicles, according to the US State Department.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">The department announced the package late on Friday, saying it consists of four separate sales. <\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">The approval comes amid rising tensions in the Middle East over the possibility of US military strikes on Iran.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">The largest portion of the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dsca.mil\/Press-Media\/Major-Arms-Sales\/Article-Display\/Article\/4394583\/israel-ah-64e-apache-helicopters\">package <\/a>includes 30 Apache attack helicopters, along with related equipment and weapons, valued at $3.8 billion. <\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">The helicopters will be equipped with rocket launchers and advanced targeting systems, the department said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Trump administration has approved a new series of arms sales to Israel worth $6.67 billion, including Apache&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-266455","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266455","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=266455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}