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The Israel Guys was founded by former Tennessee farmer Tommy Waller after a 2004 trip to Israel, where he met local vintner Nir Lavi in Har Bracha and envisioned bringing Christian volunteers to support Jewish agriculture in the region. Waller established the NGO HaYovel (later unified under the media brand The Israel Guys), which over the last two decades has brought thousands of evangelical Christian volunteers to prune, harvest, and support small farms and vineyards. Although internationally recognized as the West Bank, The Israel Guys describe the territory strictly as "Samaria" or the "biblical heartland," emphasizing its historical and covenantal significance as the location where Joshua renewed Israel's covenant between Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal, and framing their agricultural work as the direct fulfillment of biblical prophecies such as Jeremiah 31:5. In July 2026, the organization inaugurated The Israel Guys Visitors Center at their base of operations in the settlement of Har Bracha on Mount Gerizim. Constructed by a team of 70 American volunteers on land provided by the local regional council, the facility includes a coffee shop, local wine tastings from the Har Bracha Winery, and guided tours designed to connect faith-based visitors directly with the region and its history.

In contrast to the group's biblical framing, Israeli settlements throughout the West Bank—including Har Bracha—are considered illegal under international law by an overwhelming international consensus. This legal position has been affirmed repeatedly by the United Nations Security Council (including Resolutions 446 and 2334), the UN General Assembly, the European Union, the International Committee of the Red Cross, and the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in its 2004 and 2024 advisory opinions. The legal consensus centers on Article 49(6) of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which prohibits an occupying power from transferring parts of its own civilian population into occupied territory, a restriction also codified as a war crime under Article 8 of the Rome Statute. While the Israeli government disputes this by arguing that the West Bank is "disputed" rather than occupied territory and that civilian settlement is voluntary rather than state-forced, international courts and legal bodies have consistently rejected these arguments, maintaining that international humanitarian law applies de jure to all territories occupied since 1967.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is planning to deliver powerful 2,000-pound bombs to Israel as part of an upcoming arms deal, weapons that prompted such concerns about the possibility of mass casualties in Gaza that the Biden administration paused their delivery two years ago.

The $2.8 billion package includes 40,000 of the bombs, made up of 20,000 Mk84s and 20,000 BLU-117s, according to two U.S. officials and a person familiar with the plan who spoke Tuesday on condition of anonymity to discuss the package, which is not yet final.

Congress has been informally notified about the pending deal, most of which is to be paid for with foreign military financing — in which U.S. taxpayer dollars are given to Israel to turn around and buy the weapons from the United States.

The proposed sale is just the latest in a series of Trump administration steps to improve Israeli’s military capacity. The conflict in Gaza has left tens of thousands of Palestinians dead and has decimated the enclave. The U.S. brokered a fragile ceasefire, but violence has continued.

The package, which was reported earlier by The Washington Post, comes as Israel has faced increasing international isolation over its war in Gaza in response to the deadly Oct. 7, 2023, attacks by Hamas.

In 2024, the Biden administration held off on one shipment of the bombs, but Trump lifted that hold when he took office again.

Last year, the Trump administration bypassed a normal congressional review process and approved a nearly $3 billion sale to Israel that included more than 35,500 of the bombs. The administration then approved a new series of arms sales to Israel totaling $6.67 billion in January.

The 2,000-pound bombs have multiple variants, with some designed to penetrate deep, underground targets while others detonate above ground and cause widespread damage.

Though the Israeli military has offered few details about what bombs and artillery it has used in Gaza, experts analyzing strike footage and blast fragments found on-site believe the U.S.-made bombs have been used there, targeting a tunnel network used by Hamas but also killing of people in densely populated areas.

The Hamas-led attack on southern Israel in 2023 killed around 1,200 people and saw 251 taken hostage. Israel’s offensive in Gaza to retaliate has killed more than 73,264 Palestinians, including those killed since the ceasefire, Gaza’s Health Ministry sai