Trump cuts Israeli military aid after deal to end $3.8 billion in assistance
US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday, November 3, that he had reached a deal with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu under which Washington would stop providing $3.8 billion in funding to Israel after the end of this year. The figure is the centre of the announcement: an annual assistance package of that size would cease once the current year concludes, according to Trump’s account of the agreement. France 24 reported the statement from Jerusalem through correspondent Noga Tarnopolsky, presenting it as a change in the US-Israel funding relationship rather than a routine budgetary footnote.
The timing matters because the cutoff is tied to the end of this year, not to an immediate halt on the day of the remarks. Trump described the arrangement as a deal with Netanyahu, which means the Israeli prime minister is named as the counterpart to the US decision rather than a third-party intermediary. The reporting does not lay out a full legal text of the agreement or a line-by-line replacement for the $3.8 billion, but it does state Trump’s claim that Washington will stop that funding after year-end. For readers following US policy toward Israel, the news is the combination of date, amount, and named leaders: November 3, a pledged end to $3.8 billion after this year, and a deal Trump said he made with Netanyahu, as covered by France 24 from Jerusalem.
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