{"id":316447,"date":"2025-10-08T07:37:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T07:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=316447"},"modified":"2025-10-10T06:49:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T06:49:24","slug":"us-has-given-at-least-21-7-billion-in-military-aid-to-israel-since-war-in-gaza-began-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=316447","title":{"rendered":"US has given at least $21.7 billion in military aid to Israel since war in Gaza began, report says"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New Arab \u2013 Oct 7, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n

The United States<\/a>, under the Biden and Trump administrations, has provided at least $21.7 billion in military assistance to Israel since the start of the Gaza war two years ago, according to a new academic study published Tuesday, the second anniversary<\/a> of the war.<\/p>\n

Another study, also published by the Costs of War project at Brown University\u2019s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, states that the US has spent roughly $10 billion more on security aid and operations in the broader Middle East<\/a> over the past two years.<\/p>\n

While the reports rely on open-source material for most of their findings, they offer some of the most comprehensive accounts of US military aid<\/a> to close ally Israel and the estimated costs of direct American military involvement in the Middle East.<\/p>\n

The State Department had no immediate comment about the amount of military aid provided to Israel since October 2023. The White House referred questions to the Pentagon, which oversees only a portion of the assistance.<\/p>\n

The reports, which draw on publicly available notifications to Congress, were released as President Donald Trump presses<\/a> for an end to the war on Gaza. Israeli and Hamas officials launched indirect talks<\/a> in Egypt this week after Hamas accepted some elements of the US plan that Israel also said it supported.<\/p>\n

The reports, which are sharply critical of Israel, say that without the US assistance, Israel would not have been able to sustain its concerted campaign<\/a> on the Gaza Strip. They note that tens of billions of dollars in future funding for Israel are projected under various bilateral agreements.<\/p>\n

The main report states that the US provided $17.9 billion to Israel in the first year of the offensive, when Democratic President Joe Biden was in office, and $3.8 billion in the second year. Some of the military assistance has already been delivered, while the remainder will be supplied in the coming years, it said.<\/p>\n

That report was produced in conjunction with the Washington-based Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. The institute has been accused by some pro-Israel groups<\/a> of being isolationist and anti-Israel, charges the organisation denies.<\/p>\n

A second report analysing US spending on broader Middle East activities, such as strikes on Yemen<\/a> and Iranian nuclear facilities<\/a>, puts those costs at between $9.65 billion and $12 billion since 7 October 2023, including between $2 billion and $2.25 billion for the attacks in Iran and associated costs in June.<\/p>\n

Source\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In other words, Trump is bankrolling Netanyahu\u2019s genocidal campaign in Gaza<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":292734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[118,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-316447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-7-10-gaza-war","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=316447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316448,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316447\/revisions\/316448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/292734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=316447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=316447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=316447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}