US spent record $17.9 billion on military aid to Israel since onset of Gaza war: Research
New research shows that the United States has spent a record of at least $17.9 billion on military aid to Israel since the occupying regime embarked on its devastating military onslaught against Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip.
According to the report for Brown University's Costs of War project, the figure surpasses substantially the aid the US sent to Israel in one year since Washington began granting military assistance to the Tel Aviv regime in 1959.
The report said the aid to Israel includes military financing, weapons sales, and transfers from US weapons stockpiles.
It highlighted that US-made artillery shells, missile system munitions, precision-guided munitions and heavy bombs have been used to devastating effect in Gaza, where more than 42,000 people have died.
The report also noted that the United States has spent an additional $4.86 billion funding pro-Israel operations in the West Asia region, including in Yemen, since the outbreak of the genocidal war on Gaza.
Yemenis have declared their open support for Palestine’s struggle against the Israeli occupation since the regime launched a devastating war on Gaza on October 7, 2023, after the territory’s Palestinian resistance movements carried out surprise Operation Al-Aqsa Flood against the occupying entity.
The Yemeni Armed Forces have said they will not stop their attacks until unrelenting Israeli ground and aerial offensives in Gaza end.
“The US has deployed multiple aircraft carriers, destroyers, cruisers and expensive multimillion-dollar missiles” against cheap Yemeni drones that cost $2,000, the authors of the report said.
The unwavering support of the US for Israel comes despite opposition from some American officials, lawmakers and many human rights groups concerned about the killing of civilians in Gaza, and now the West Bank and Lebanon.
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