The United States approves a $510 million arms deal with Israel.

The Trump administration has approved a new $510 million arms deal with Israel, providing it with Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAMS), kits that convert bombs into precision-guided weapons, even as the United States continues to provide military aid to support the genocidal war in Gaza.

According to the Pentagon's Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA), the State Department has notified Congress of the sale of 3,845 Joint Direct Attack Munitions for BLU-109 2,000-pound bombs and 3,280 Joint Direct Attack Munitions for MK 82 500-pound bombs.

The deal also includes "U.S. government and contractor engineering, logistics, and technical support services; and other related logistics and program support elements." The Defense Security Cooperation Agency stated that Boeing is the prime contractor for the deal. The notification of the potential sale begins a period in which U.S. lawmakers can block the sale, but there is little opposition to U.S. military support for Israel in Congress, despite the numerous war crimes in which the United States has been implicated by supplying Israel with weapons.

Bomb fragments equipped with US-supplied JDAM kits have been found at the site of Israeli airstrikes in Gaza that killed numerous civilians. In 2023, Human Rights Watch said it identified JDAM fragments found in two airstrikes on homes in central Gaza that killed 43 civilians, including 19 children and 14 women.

It is not clear at this stage how the deal will be financed, but many arms sales to Israel are funded by US military aid, and US aid to Israel has increased significantly since October 7, 2023. According to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, US funding at that time covered an estimated 70% of Israeli war-related military spending.

According to a report published by Brown University, the United States has supplied Israel with more than $23 billion in weapons for use against the Palestinians besieged in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the Israeli war of extermination on October 7, 2023.