{"id":22058,"date":"2023-12-31T03:20:26","date_gmt":"2023-12-31T09:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=22058"},"modified":"2023-12-31T03:20:30","modified_gmt":"2023-12-31T09:20:30","slug":"u-s-state-department-approves-147-5-million-sale-of-m107-artillery-shells-to-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=22058","title":{"rendered":"U.S. State Department approves $147.5 million sale of M107 artillery shells to Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Russian Satellite News Agency, Washington, December 30. According to the Defense Security Cooperation Agency of the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. State Department approved a transaction to sell M107 artillery shells for 155mm howitzers and related equipment to Israel for an amount of approximately US$147.5 million.According to the bureau, Israel has proposed to Washington to purchase approximately 4,800 such artillery shells.&nbsp;The news pointed out that&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.cn\/20231227\/1055996174.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">US Secretary of State Blinken<\/a>&nbsp;concluded that the situation in Israel is very urgent, so these artillery shells must be sold to it &#8220;immediately&#8221;, which is in the United States&#8217; own interests.Presumably, the shells will be supplied from U.S. Army depots.&nbsp;The bureau said the deal would not have any adverse impact on the U.S. military&#8217;s own combat capabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.cn\/20231230\/1056056921.html\">sputniknews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian Satellite News Agency, Washington, December 30. According to the Defense Security Cooperation Agency of the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. State Department approved a transaction to sell M107 artillery shells for 155mm howitzers and related equipment to Israel for an amount of approximately US$147.5 million.According to the bureau, Israel has proposed to Washington [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":22059,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[25478,3104,1239,5975,3138],"class_list":["post-22058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-147-5-million","tag-approval","tag-israel","tag-sale","tag-u-s-state-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22060,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22058\/revisions\/22060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}