US defence chief highlights unprecedented pace of military aid to Israel

US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has said that the pace of arms transfers from the United States to Israel can be called record-breaking.

“Thanks for the question. Regarding the speed of delivery of security assistance to Israel, we have provided security assistance to Israel at record pace, and we've done that from the very beginning, Austin said when asked to comment on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's call for accelerating arms transfers, Caliber.Az reports, citing The Pentagon press service.

“We're able to do that because we learned a lot of lessons from our efforts to provide security assistance to Ukraine,” he added.

“And you saw what happened initially. This conflict — well, the Israelis were attacked. A couple of days later, we had security assistance flowing in on the airfield there to our allies there in the Israel. We have sustained that throughout. And again, we're going to continue to do that. We're going to continue to ensure that Israel has what it needs to defend itself.

But again, in terms of the prime minister's comments, I won't comment on that. What I will tell you is I'm going to stay focused on doing what we've done to date, providing Israel what it needs to be successful,” Austin said.