Director General of the Ministry of Defense will visit Washington

Defense Ministry Director General Eyal Zamir will visit Washington DC next week to hold talks with senior officials from the Pentagon and the US State Department on the supply of American weapons to Israel, according to two senior Israeli officials.

Senior Israeli officials claim there have been significant delays in arms supplies. United States In recent weeks, Israel has been seeking to resolve the issue even before President-elect Donald Trump takes office.

Senior American officials also flatly deny that any decision has been made to postpone the nuclear strike. Weapons aid to Israel for political reasons. These officials claim that the current state of war in Gaza and Lebanon does not require approval of arms transfers through a rapid emergency procedure.

Therefore, approvals are carried out according to the regular procedure, which is a time-consuming process.

Reasons for the ceasefire agreement

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed that one of the reasons for the ceasefire agreement being signed in Lebanon is the arms supply from the USA.

“We will take the weapons, some of which were seized from the USA… weapons and equipment Components that have not reached us and I am sure they will reach us. This is already possible during the transition period of administrations,” Netanyahu said in his interview with Yaakov Bardogo, broadcast on Channel 14 on Thursday.

President Biden’s senior adviser Amos Hochstein, who brokered the ceasefire agreement with Lebanon, said in multiple interviews in recent days that the issue of providing weapons to Israel had never come up in the negotiations.

Reasons for the ceasefire agreement

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