US defence secretary to see American security assistance for Israel first-hand

Lloyd Austin is in Israel for meetings with senior government leaders (AP)

US defence secretary Lloyd Austin has arrived in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv to meet with senior government leaders and see first-hand some of the US weapons and security assistance that Washington rapidly delivered to Israel in the first week of its war with the militant Hamas group.

Mr Austin is the second high-level US official to visit Israel in two days.