[News] US delivers 90,000 tons of weapons to Israel in 600 days of genocide

[Anti-Imperialist News]

 US delivers 90,000 tons of weapons to Israel in 600 days of genocide

Washington remains the leading provider of the bombs used to ethnically
cleanse Gaza, followed by Germany and Italy

News Desk <https://thecradle.co/authors/news-desk-9>

MAY 27, 2025 -
https://thecradle.co/articles/us-delivers-90000-tons-of-weapons-to-israel-in-600-days-of-genocide
(Photo Credit: DOD/Air Force Capt. Emma Quirk)

The 800th planeload
<https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/israel-marks-800th-planeload-of-us-guns-bombs-and-ammo-as-war-nears-day-600/>
of US arms shipments to Israel landed in Tel Aviv on 27 May, as the Israeli
Defense Ministry announced that, since the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza
began, Washington has delivered over 90,000 tons of armaments and military
equipment.

Tel Aviv called the constant US arms shipments via sea and air “a
significant component” in allowing the Israeli military to continue its
ethnic cleansing campaign, which entered day 600 on Tuesday.

Over the past 19 months, the US government has approved nearly $30 billion
in arms sales to Israel, including $7.4 billion
<https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/07/israel-weapons-sale-gaza>
in missiles and bombs in February and a $3 billion “emergency” arms package
in March.

According to a report
<https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/files/cow/imce/papers/2023/2024/Costs%20of%20War_US%20Support%20Since%20Oct%207%20FINAL%20v2.pdf>
published last year by Brown University’s Costs of War project, Washington
spent at least $22.76 billion between 7 October 2023 and 30 September 2024
to support Israel's genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and fuel a brutal
regional war.

The US State Department has repeatedly used emergency authorities to
expedite arms deliveries.

Last month, the US Senate overwhelmingly voted to strike down
<https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-senate-overwhelmingly-votes-down-sanders-motions-to-block-arms-sales-to-israel/>
two
resolutions of disapproval regarding Washington's massive arms transfers
and other military assistance to Israel.

“Donald Trump is the greatest friend that Israel has ever had in the White
House. He’s shown it by sending us all the munitions that were being held
up. This way, he is giving Israel the tools we need to finish the job
against Iran’s terror axis,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said
in March.

As of May 2025, over 100,000 tons of explosives have been dropped in Gaza,
far surpassing the totals for Dresden and Hamburg during Operation
Gomorrah, and London during the Blitz in WWII, which combined account for
approximately 32,300 tons of explosives.

“I have never seen so many blast injuries in my life, and I've never seen
so many injuries in Gaza in my life. We're seeing these injuries in really
small children as well,” British surgeon Victoria Rose
<https://www.newarab.com/news/uk-surgeon-gaza-says-never-seen-so-many-blast-injuries>
told reporters this week after serving as a member of a medical delegation
to Nasser Hospital in south Gaza's Khan Yunis.

The Gaza Health Ministry confirms that at least 54,000 people have been
killed by Israel since the start of the US-sponsored genocide. According to
scientific estimates published by *The Lancet*
<https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)02678-3/fulltext>last
year, the death toll in Gaza has been under-reported by at least 41 percent.

Last month, authorities in Gaza revealed that 65 percent of those killed by
Israel are women, children, and the elderly. Moreover, officials say Israel
wiped out more than 2,180 Palestinian families.
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