US Secretary of State Marco Rubio determined an emergency existed that required an immediate sale to Israel, the State Department said, with the announcement coming a week after the US and Israel started their ​attacks on Iran.

Israel had requested 12,000 BLU-110A/B general purpose, 1,000-pound bomb bodies, the State Department ​said in a statement.

The principal contractor will be Repkon USA, located in Texas, ⁠it said.

The State Department said on Friday that Rubio had determined that the sale is “in the ​national security interests of the United States.”

Democratic US Representative Gregory Meeks said Rubio’s decision to use emergency authority ​to bypass congressional review showed a lack of preparation for the war on Iran.

“The Trump administration has repeatedly insisted it was fully prepared for this war. Rushing to invoke emergency authority to circumvent Congress tells a different story. This ​is an emergency of the Trump administration’s own creation,” Meeks said in a statement.

The US and Israel ​launched an air assault on Iran on February 28 and Iran responded with its own attacks in Israel and regional ‌countries ⁠with US bases.

In the last week, US and Israeli attacks have killed at least 1,332 Iranian civilians and thousands more have been wounded, according to Iran’s UN ambassador.

The US military has said six US service members were killed in a strike ​on a Kuwait facility, while ​Israel has said at ⁠least 10 civilians have been killed across Israel so far.

Washington has maintained strong support for Israel under President Donald Trump and former president Joe Biden during the more ​than two years of Israeli wars in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran.

The Trump administration ​has also previously ⁠made military sales to Israel by skipping congressional reviews, as did the Biden administration when it was in power.

Washington’s military support has faced scrutiny from rights experts, particularly during Israel’s assault on Gaza that has killed tens of thousands, ⁠caused ​a hunger crisis, internally displaced Gaza’s entire population, and led to ​assessments of genocide from scholars and a UN inquiry.