Image: Gregory Meeks at a rally on the 63rd anniversary of the March on Washington in August. Photograph: Bonnie Cash/UPI/Shutterstock

Joseph Gedeon of The Guardian reports: “The top Democrat on the House foreign affairs committee has thrown up a roadblock to one of the largest US arms transfers of Trump’s second term, refusing to clear a $2.8bn sale of 2,000lb bombs to Israel.

Gregory Meeks announced the hold on Tuesday on a package of 40,000 of the bombs, among the most destructive conventional munitions in the US arsenal.

“The Trump administration has not provided sufficient assurances that these weapons will be used by the Netanyahu government in accordance with US law and with appropriate protections for civilians,” he said. “I therefore will not clear this sale at this time.”

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