WASHINGTON (Dispatches) – The U.S. State Department says that President Donald Trump's proposed budget would not reduce American aid to the Zionist regime.
"Our assistance to Israel is, if I could say, a cutout on the budget, and that’s guaranteed, and that reflects, obviously, our strong commitment to one of our strongest partners and allies," State Department spokesman Mark Toner told reporters in Washington, DC.
"With respect to other assistance levels, foreign military assistance levels, those are still being evaluated and decisions are going to be made going forward," he added.
The State Department also said the assistance levels to other nations, including Egypt and Jordan, were still being evaluated.
"We’re still at the very beginning of the budget process, and in the coming months these are all going to be figures that we evaluate and look at hard, obviously bearing in mind ... our treaty obligations going forward,” it said.
Trump’s $1.5 trillion budget blueprint has seen drastic spending cuts in foreign aid and U.S. domestic programs as the president seeks to boost military spending and make a down payment on a border wall with Mexico.
It includes $54 billion to finance U.S. combat operations abroad. The budget proposal has been submitted to Congress for ratification.
The Zionist regime is the largest cumulative recipient of U.S. foreign assistance since World War II. America's military assistance to the regime has amounted to $124.3 billion since it began in 1962, according to a recent congressional report.
Hours before the announcement, the Zionist regime’s warplanes once again carried out several airstrikes on multiple locations throughout the Gaza Strip.
According to al-Aqsa TV, the occupying regime’s jets targeted areas to the west of the Dayr al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, and an empty patch of agricultural land to the east of Gaza City in the early hours of Thursday morning.
The regime’s F16 jets also bombed the Shejaiya area, reportedly resulting in power cuts across the region.  
There have been no immediate reports of possible casualties as a result of the attacks.
Earlier, Zionist troops claimed that a rocket was fired from the Gaza Strip into an unpopulated area in the southern occupied territories without causing any injuries.
The occupying regime’s troops frequently bomb the Gaza Strip, with civilians being the main target of such attacks.