Netanyahu: Trump thanked Israel for help rescuing airman

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says US President Donald Trump thanked Israel for its part in the rescue of an officer whose fighter jet was downed when the two spoke yesterday.

“I expressed to him our immense appreciation for the heroic rescue operation of that American airman,” says Netanyahu in a video released by his office, ” and President Trump, for his part, thanked me for the assistance that Israel provided in that operation.”

According to Israeli officials, Israel’s assistance consisted of sharing intelligence and halting bombings in the areas where searches for the officer were taking place.

Trump, according to Netanyahu, gushed about Israel in the conversation.

“He said, ‘You guys are great,'” Netanyahu says in the video. “You are great. He sees Israel as a strong, determined, and resolute ally, fighting shoulder to shoulder alongside the United States, and together we are continuing to crush Iran’s terror regime.”

Israel and the US, he says, “are systematically eliminating the Revolutionary Guards’ money machine. We are eliminating factories, we are eliminating operatives, and yes, we continue to eliminate senior officials.”