US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says he had used his emergency authority to expedite the delivery of approximately $4 billion in military assistance to Israel, amid a tense ceasefire between the regime and Hamas in Gaza, where over 48,000 Palestinians have been killed.
Rubio said on Saturday he made this decision in order to reverse the Biden Administration’s partial arms embargo that “wrongly withheld a number of weapons and ammunition from Israel.”
The declaration is “a yet another sign that Israel has no greater ally in the White House than President Trump,” he said.
Since taking office on January 20, the Donald Trump Administration has approved nearly $12 billion in major foreign military sales to Israel.
This decision coincided with Trump’s repeal of a Joe Biden-era National Security Memorandum 20 (NSM-20).