President Donald Trump has said the United States will stop sending annual military aid to Israel, ending a long-running assistance arrangement years ahead of schedule, according to CBN News.

Trump said he and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had agreed to end the payments by December, cutting short an aid agreement that had been scheduled to run through 2028. He put the annual amount at $4 billion, saying, “We were giving them 4 billion and we no longer are,” and adding, “Because they no longer need it.”

According to the report, Trump argued that Israel is now economically strong enough to fund its own defense, and that the aid payments had become a political weapon for candidates in the United States who oppose Israel. CBN News notes that the account of an agreement comes from Trump himself; the article does not quote Netanyahu directly about the aid decision, and it reports no separate quoted response from other U.S. officials.

The announcement comes as Israel works through an unsettled political moment. CBN News reports that the votes in Israel's recent election are in and government-formation bargaining is underway, with President Isaac Herzog set to receive the official results and begin consultations with party leaders.

Neither of the two largest blocs commands a parliamentary majority on its own, the report says: Netanyahu's bloc holds 53 seats and opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot's bloc holds 48, short of the 61 needed to govern. Arab parties, with 19 seats, could therefore prove decisive. Arab lawmaker Ahmed Tibi, leader of Ta'al, is reported as ready to support removing Netanyahu from power, describing Arab voter turnout as self-defence by the Arab community, while Eisenkot is reported to be moving quickly to form an alternative government. Without a deal, Israel could face another election.

The aid decision also lands against heightened tensions with Iran. CBN News describes those tensions as at a boiling point, reporting that after U.S. defensive strikes against Iranian targets in the Strait of Hormuz, Tehran said it had delivered a response to Washington. Iran's chief negotiator, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, is reported as warning that Iran remains ready for battle and that preventing war is now up to the United States.

For Christians watching the region, the developments touch matters the Bible treats with both gravity and hope: the security of Israel, the suffering of ordinary people caught between rival powers, and the limits of what any nation's weapons can finally guarantee. Political alliances shift and governments rise and fall, but the peace of Jerusalem remains, for believers, a matter for prayer before it is a matter for policy.

What happens next will depend on details not yet public: whether Israel's next government confirms the arrangement, how the December timeline is carried out, and whether the confrontation with Iran cools or escalates. Until those questions are answered, the announcement stands as Trump's stated decision, reported by CBN News, rather than as a completed agreement confirmed by both governments in their own words.