(Reuters) The U.S. has allowed Israel to tap a local U.S. arms stockpile in the past week to resupply it with grenades and mortar rounds, a U.S. defense official said on Thursday. The munitions were located inside Israel as part of the War Reserves Stock Allies-Israel (WRSA-I) program, which stores munitions locally for U.S. use that Israel can also access in emergency situations. Additional Israeli requests for U.S.-manufactured ammunition were also being processed, a U.S. defense official said.
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