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According to a press release, the American government concluded “that an emergency exists requiring this immediate sale to the Israeli government.”
Published on December 30, 2023 00:08
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, in Washington DC, December 20, 2023. (ALEX WONG / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP)
The American government announced on Friday, December 29, that it had “urgently” approved the sale of $147.5 million worth of artillery ammunition to Israel without congressional approval. The American Secretary of State Antony Blinken concluded that “an emergency exists that requires this immediate sale to the Israeli government,” he explained in a press release from the US Defense Security Cooperation Agency, a federal agency particularly responsible for American military sales to foreign states is.
The sale involves 155 mm grenades and various military equipment from the US Army's inventory, the press release said. On December 9, Washington also gave the green light to the sale to Israel of nearly 14,000 tank shells used in the war against Hamas in Gaza, in retaliation for the Palestinian Hamas attack that killed around 1,140 people on October 7 came. According to the latest report from the Hamas Ministry of Health, at least 21,507 people have been killed by the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip since October 7 – a report that Franceinfo cannot confirm due to a lack of independent verification on the ground.
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