US sent record amount of military aid to Israel after 2023 Oct 7: Report : Valley Vision

The United States has supplied Israel with at least $17.9bn in military aid since its genocidal war on Gaza began on October 7 last year, according to a report for Brown University’s Costs of War project.

The report, released on the anniversary of October 7 Hamas operations on southern Israel, says expenditure includes $4bn towards replenishing Israel’s Iron Dome and David’s Sling missile defence systems, as well as cash for guns and jet fuel.

The report states that an additional $4.86bn in funding was supplied to US military operations in the Middle East during that timeframe.

This figure includes the costs associated with the US military’s campaign to quell Houthi attacks in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, which the Yemen-based group says it’s carrying out in solidarity with the people of Gaza.

The calculations were made by Linda J Bilmes, a professor at Harvard’s John F Kennedy School of Government, who assessed the cost of US wars since the September 11 attacks, along with researchers William D Hartung and Stephen Semler.

Israel’s military offensive in the Gaza Strip has killed at least 41,909 Palestinians and wounded 97,303 since October 7, 2023, the Health Ministry says.

The casualty figures are believed to be far higher with thousands of bodies buried in the debris of collapsed buildings and unrecoverable during the Israeli onslaught.