{"id":275838,"date":"2024-09-30T12:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T11:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=275838"},"modified":"2024-09-28T06:52:24","modified_gmt":"2024-09-28T05:52:24","slug":"us-gives-israel-8-7-billion-in-military-aid-for-operations-in-gaza-and-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/09\/us-gives-israel-8-7-billion-in-military-aid-for-operations-in-gaza-and-lebanon\/","title":{"rendered":"US Gives Israel $8.7 Billion in Military Aid for Operations in Gaza and Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"

The new aid comes as the US claims it’s pushing for a ceasefire in Lebanon.<\/span><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

26 Sep 2024<\/em> – Today, the Israeli Defense Ministry announced that it secured $8.7 billion in military aid<\/a> from the US to support its \u201congoing military efforts,\u201d meaning the genocidal slaughter in Gaza and Israel\u2019s dramatic escalation in Lebanon.<\/p>\n

The ministry said in a statement<\/a> that its director-general, Maj. Gen. Eyal Zamir, concluded negotiations in Washington to secure the military aid. It said the package includes $3.5 billion for \u201cessential wartime procurement\u201d that has already been sent to Israel and a $5.2 billion grant for air defenses.<\/p>\n

The ministry said the $5.2 billion for air defenses \u201cwill significantly strengthen critical systems such as Iron Dome and David\u2019s Sling while supporting the continued development of an advanced high-powered laser defense system currently in its later stages of development.\u201d<\/p>\n

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin vowed Thursday that the US would continue arming Israel<\/a> and brushed off the idea of the US setting red lines. \u201cWe\u2019ve been committed from the very beginning to help Israel, provide the things that are necessary for them to be able to protect their sovereign territory and that hasn\u2019t changed and won\u2019t change in the future,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

So far, the US has not announced the details of the $8.7 billion weapons package, but the funds are likely being pulled from the $17 billion in new military aid for Israel that was included in the $95 billion foreign military aid bill President Biden signed into law back in April. Israel also receives $3.8 billion from the US in annual military aid.<\/p>\n

News of the new US support for Israel comes as the Biden administration claims it\u2019s pushing for a ceasefire in Lebanon. But the US has not altered its support of full-throated support for Israel, and the military aid and pledges to defend Israel if the situation escalates have only emboldened Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who rejected the US calls for a truce on Thursday.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Dave DeCamp is the news editor of<\/em> antiwar.com.<\/p>\n

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26 Sep 2024 – The new aid comes as the US falsely claims it’s pushing for a ceasefire in Lebanon. It is actually grotesque.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":275839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[1161,417,3281,87,865,1029,3339,88,2097,767,427,818,70,1594,481,1025],"class_list":["post-275838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anglo-america","tag-arms-industry","tag-bullying","tag-evil-empire","tag-gaza","tag-genocide","tag-hamas","tag-hezbollah","tag-israel","tag-lebanon","tag-middle-east","tag-palestine","tag-proxy-war","tag-usa","tag-war-economy","tag-warfare","tag-west-bank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275840,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275838\/revisions\/275840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}