The Trump administration is preparing to sell Israel a massive arms package worth roughly $2.8 billion, including tens of thousands of heavy bombs and bunker-buster warheads, the Washington Post reported Tuesday evening. It’s the largest deal of its kind for Israel in recent years.
1+According to the report, the weapons package includes 40,000 bombs weighing roughly 2,000 pounds each: 20,000 MK-84 bombs and another 20,000 BLU-117 bombs. The deal is also expected to include 20,000 I-2000 bunker-buster warheads designed to strike fortified targets and structures.
The deal hasn’t received final approval yet, but according to a U.S. official involved in the details, it’s already been informally submitted to the relevant congressional committees. The Trump administration is now working to advance its approval with the leadership of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
1+The current deal is larger than previous sales of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel in recent years. In February 2025, the U.S. administration approved a deal worth roughly $2.04 billion that included up to 35,529 MK-84 or BLU-117 bomb bodies and 4,000 bunker-buster warheads.
The heavy bombs were previously at the center of a sharp dispute between Jerusalem and Washington. The Biden administration halted a shipment of them to Israel in 2024 over the war in Gaza, but after Trump returned to the White House, he reversed the decision and allowed the supply to resume. According to the Washington Post, delivering weapons orders of this scale could take several years even after the approval process is complete.