by Nicholas Ballasy at Just the News
The United States has spent at least $17.9 billion on military aid for Israel since the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attacks against Israel, according to a report for Brown University’s Costs of War project released on Monday.
The release of the report coincided with the one-year anniversary of the Hamas’ attacks on Israel.
According to the Council on Foreign Relations, prior to the Oct. 7 attacks, the U.S. had “provisionally agreed via a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to provide Israel with $3.8 billion per year through 2028.”
On top of the nearly $18 billion in military aid to Israel, $4.86 billion has gone into “stepped-up U.S. military operations in the region” since the Oct. 7, 2023, according to the Associated Press.
The AP reported that those efforts include the “costs of a Navy-led campaign to quell strikes on commercial shipping by Yemen’s Houthis, who are carrying them out in solidarity with the fellow Iranian-backed group Hamas.”
The report was compiled before Israel responded to Iranian-backed Hezbollah’s missile strikes with targeted attacks inside Lebanon in September.
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