The American government announced on Friday that it had “urgently” approved, without going through Congress, the sale of artillery ammunition to Israel for an amount of $147.5 million.
These are 155 mm shells and various military equipment taken from the stocks of the United States army, according to a press release from the American Defense Security Cooperation Agency, a federal agency responsible for notably American military sales to foreign states.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken concluded “that an emergency exists requiring this immediate sale to the Israeli government,” the press release justified.
On December 9, Washington also gave the green light to the sale to Israel of nearly 14,000 tank shells used in its war against Hamas in Gaza.
