The report states that “the United States has spent a record $17.9 billion in military aid to Israel since the start of the Gaza war” a year ago to the day.
“Researchers say an additional $4.86 billion has been spent on intensifying US military operations in the region since the attack on October 7, 2023,” added the same source.
“This includes the costs of the US Navy’s campaign to quell Houthi strikes in Yemen against commercial shipping, which they claim to be carrying out in solidarity with Hamas,” the report explains.
Added to this are “spending in excess of $4 billion to renew Israel’s Iron Dome and David’s Sling missile defense systems, as well as money for rifles and jet fuel,” according to the report. .
And to clarify that “unlike the publicly documented American military aid to Ukraine, it has been impossible to obtain all the details of what the United States has shipped to Israel since October 7, 2023, therefore the amount of $17.9 billion for this year is only a partial figure,” the researchers say.
This Monday marks the first anniversary of the outbreak by Israel, with American support, of a genocidal war in Gaza, which has, to date, caused more than 139,000 victims between dead and injured Palestinians, and more than 10,000 missing, in addition to the massive destruction and famine which killed dozens of children and elderly people.
Tel Aviv continues the war of extermination, ignoring the UN Security Council resolution to immediately end it, as well as the rulings of the International Court of Justice to take measures to prevent acts of “genocide” and improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza, however miserable it may be.
