Trump claims US aid to Israel will end after 2026 as Netanyahu pushes for renewed war on Iran

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midterm elections, telling the programme "we made a deal months ago that we're stopping". He said Israel no longer needed the money and that Democratic candidates, among them Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, were using the payments as a talking point against Republicans.

A 10-year memorandum of understanding signed in 2016 governs the aid Trump described. 3 billion in Foreign Military Financing and US$500 million for joint missile-defence programmes, and runs until September 2028.

Netanyahu, on trial since May 2020 on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust, spent the weekend before the announcement urging Trump to resume bombing Iran. S.