from Daily Sabah
A week after threatening to withhold some arms over Rafah, U.S. President Joe Biden's administration informed Congress on Tuesday of a $1 billion weapons package for Israel.
The administration informally notified the weapons package to Congress, which will need to approve it, a U.S. official said, while a congressional aide who also requested anonymity said the weapons bought from U.S. weapons makers amounted to around $1 billion.
The weapons would come out of a major $95 billion package recently approved by Congress in defense support for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, and the Biden administration has repeatedly said it planned to go ahead and appropriate the funds through purchases from U.S. manufacturers...
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