Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu has thanked United States President Donald Trump for providing “tools” Israel needs to “defend itself”.
Trump had on Saturday instructed the US military to release a hold imposed by former President Joe Biden on the supply of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel.
“We released them. We released them today. And they will have them. They paid for them and they’ve been waiting for them for a long time.
“They have been in storage,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One.
Speaking on the development, Netanyahu in a post on X on Sunday, said: “Thank you President Trump for keeping your promise to give Israel the tools it needs to defend itself, to confront our common enemies and to secure a future of peace and prosperity.”
Israel’s Foreign Minister Gideon Saar has also thanked Trump for “yet another display of leadership by releasing the crucial defence shipment to Israel”.
News360 Info reports that armed conflict between Israel and Hamas-led Palestinian militant groups has been taking place in the Gaza Strip and Israel since October, 2023.
It is the fifth war since 2008 in the Gaza–Israel conflict and the most significant military engagement in the region since the Yom Kippur War in 1973.
