# Key House Democrat refuses to clear Trump’s $2.8bn arms sale to Israel

https://mins.news/en/item/61629

- The Guardian, 2026-09-16 20:20 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/16/us-arms-sale-israel-gregory-meeks

> Gregory Meeks, the senior Democrat on the House foreign affairs committee, has put a hold on a proposed $2.8bn sale of 40,000 heavy bombs to Israel. He said the Trump administration had not given adequate assurances that the weapons would be used lawfully by the Netanyahu government and with protections for civilians.

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