The Trump administration has advanced the sale of 20,000 US-made assault rifles to Israel, a sale that the Biden administration had delayed over concerns they could be used by extremist Israeli settlers. The sale, valued at $24 million, was notified to Congress on March 6 and the end user is stated to be the Israeli National Police. The Biden administration had imposed sanctions on individuals and entities involved in violence in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, where settler attacks on Palestinians have increased. The sale was eventually cleared by congressional committees, but the Biden administration kept the hold in place.