US Has Given Israel $22 Billion in Military Aid since October 2023
MILITARISM, 6 Jan 2025
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service
[Amir Cohen/Reuters]
According to data from SIPRI, US weapons now account for 78% of Israel’s arms imports.
1 Jan 2025 – Since October 7, 2023, the US has provided Israel with more than $22 billion in military aid, Israel Hayom reported today, citing data from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).
The stepped-up US military aid to Israel has supported the genocidal war in Gaza, Israel’s war in Lebanon, military operations in the occupied West Bank, and attacks on Syria, Iran, and Yemen.
According to SIPRI, from 2019 to 2023, US weapons accounted for 69% of Israel’s arms imports. Since October 7, that number has risen to 78%, demonstrating Israel’s significant reliance on US military aid.
In October 2024, Brown University’s Costs of War Project said the US had provided Israel with $17.9 billion in military aid in the first year of the onslaught in Gaza. Since then, Israel has signed a $5.2 billion contract with Boeing to purchase F-15 fighter jets, a deal funded by the US, bringing total US military aid since October 7, 2023, to over $22 billion.
The Costs of War report also said US military operations in the Middle East to support Israel cost American taxpayers at least $4.8 billion, a number that must have also risen since the US has continued to bomb Yemen and deployed a THAAD air defense system to Israel.
Israeli officials have been candid about how reliant they are on US support. An Israeli Air Force official told Haaretz that without US military aid, Israel would not be able to sustain operations in Gaza for more than a few months.
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Dave DeCamp is the news editor of antiwar.com.
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