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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">United States Spending On Israel’s Military Operations</h1>
<div class="gmail-credits gmail-reader-credits">By The Costs of War.</div>
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<div class="gmail-reader-estimated-time" dir="ltr">October 7, 2024<br></div>
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<h2>And Related U.S. Operations In The Region, October 7, 2023-September 30, 2024 Costs Of War.</h2>
<p><strong>The Costs of War Project is a team of 35 scholars, legal
experts, human rights practitioners, and physicians, which began its
work in 2011. We use research and a public website to facilitate debate
about the costs of the post-9/11 wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and
Pakistan.</strong></p>
<p dir="ltr">U.S. spending on Israel’s military operations and related
U.S operations in the region total at least $22.76 billion and counting.
This estimate is conservative; while it includes approved security
assistance funding since October 7, 2023, supplemental funding for
regional operations, and an estimated additional cost of operations, it
does not include any other economic costs.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">This figure includes the $17.9 billion the U.S. government
has approved in security assistance for Israeli military operations in
Gaza and elsewhere since October 7 – substantially more than in any
other year since the U.S. began granting military aid to Israel in 1959.
Yet the report describes how this is only a partial amount of the U.S.
financial support provided during this war.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Related U.S. military operations in the broader region
since October 7 are part of the fuller picture. In particular, the U.S.
Navy has significantly scaled up its defensive and offensive operations
against Houthi militants in Yemen, which the Houthis claim is related to
Israel’s war in Gaza. Hostilities have escalated to become the most
sustained military campaign by U.S. forces since the 2016-2019 air war
against ISIS in Iraq and Syria. U.S. operations in the region, including
in Yemen, have already cost the U.S. government $4.86 billion (included
in the overall figure, above, of $22.76 billion).</p>
<p>This Houthi-related conflict has also cost the maritime trade an
additional $2.1 billion, because shippers have been forced to divert
vessels or pay exorbitant insurance fees. U.S. consumers may experience
paying higher prices for goods as a result.</p>
<p>This report touches on the relationship between U.S. weapons
manufacturers and the Israeli government, which have maintained
longstanding commercial relations. The U.S. government has cited these
commercial ties as one of the reasons why the U.S. should continue to
supply foreign militaries, including the Israeli military, with weapons
and equipment.</p>
<h3><a href="https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/files/cow/imce/papers/2023/2024/Costs%20of%20War_US%20Support%20Since%20Oct%207%20FINAL%20v2.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>READ FULL</strong> PAPER</a></h3>
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