Trump moves to end $3.8b US aid deal with Israel

WASHINGTON, Nov 3: US President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Washington is ending a 10-year security assistance deal with Israel that allowed $3.8 billion in annual assistance to its ally until 2028.

Trump said Israel was "fine" with him ending the assistance, which began in 2019 and was brokered in a memorandum of understanding under his predecessor, Barack Obama, three years earlier.

"We'll help Israel if they need it," he added in an interview on US current affairs show Fox and Friends, saying that he had agreed with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to cut the assistance.�" AFP