Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked US President Donald Trump’s administration for sending munitions he claimed had been held up by the previous administration, saying they would help Israel “finish the job” against Iran and its network of allied insurgent and terrorist groups.

Netanyahu has long expressed the urgency of opposition to Iran, its nuclear program and its proxies. They include Palestinian terror group Hamas, which Israel has sought to oust from Gaza Strip since war broke out in October 2023, and Hezbollah, which was decimated by an Israeli military campaign in southern Lebanon late last year.

Despite ceasefires in both Gaza and Lebanon, the Trump administration unfroze a shipment of 2,000-pound “bunker buster” bombs, which arrived in Israel last month, after they had been blocked by former US president Joe Biden.

Biden has denied otherwise withholding arms from Israel, despite the Trump administration’s attempt to classify the single blocked shipment as a “partial arms embargo.”

“Donald Trump is the greatest friend that Israel has ever had in the White House,” Netanyahu said in a video statement in English.

“He’s shown it by sending us all the munitions that were being held up. This way he is giving Israel the tools we need to finish the job against Iran’s terror axis.”

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar thanked Trump and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in a post on X Monday morning, writing the decision........

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