{"id":617265,"date":"2026-09-15T23:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T23:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/617265\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T23:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T23:48:11","slug":"us-to-sell-2-8-billion-worth-of-bombs-to-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/617265\/","title":{"rendered":"US to sell $2.8 billion worth of bombs to Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US is preparing its largest single sale of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel, worth approximately $2.8 billion, in recent years, according to a Tuesday Washington Post report citing a US official.<\/p>\n<p>The package will reportedly consist of 40,000 of the 2,000-pound bombs, including 20,000 MK-84s and 20,000 BLU-117s. The official told the Washington Post that the sale also included 20,000 I-2000 Penetrator warheads.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post described the MK-84 as \u201camong the most destructive munitions in Western military arsenals,\u201d noting that the munition can penetrate through metal and thick concrete.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">According to the report, congressional committees have been informally notified of the pending transaction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The Trump administration is also allegedly pressuring leaders of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee to approve the sale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The sale will be financed through the US\u2019s Foreign Military Financing mechanism, and Israel will purchase the arms with grants provided through the mechanism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The arms package is larger than previous US sales of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel, including a 2025 sale worth $2.04 billion.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US is preparing its largest single sale of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel, worth approximately $2.8 billion, in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1031,85,46,43,1032,48717],"class_list":["post-617265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-idf","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-us-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617265","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=617265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}