U.S. Military Aid and Arms Transfers to Israel, October 2023 – September 2025
At this two-year marker in Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people, we reflect on the role of the United States in aiding, abetting and arming that crime of crimes.
In addition to the incalculable benefit to Israel of U.S. diplomatic cover in the UN Security Council and across the global systems, the U.S. Government has provided at least $21.7 billion in military aid to Israel since the start of the war in Gaza on 7 October 2023.
However, both the Biden and Trump administrations, have committed an additional tens of billions of dollars in arms sales agreements for weapons and services that will be paid for in the years to come. A report by William D. Hartung of the Quincy Institute covers the spending streams that have gone into that $21.7 billion, as well as detailing the billions in commitments that the U.S. government has promised for arms to be supplied in the future, much or all of which will be paid for by additional appropriations for military aid to Israel.
Given the scale of current and future spending, it is clear the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) could not have done the damage they have done in Gaza or escalated their military activities throughout the region without U.S. financing, weapons, and political support. According to a companion report by Linda J. Bilmes, the U.S. has spent an additional $9.65 – $12.07 billion on military operations in Yemen and the wider region sparked by or in support of Israeli military operations since 7 October 2023, for a total of $31.35 – $33.77 billion and counting in U.S. spending on two years of genocide.
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Photo on the front page: An aerial view of Gaza destruction, taken during a Royal Jordanian military flight for a humanitarian aid mission, 30 July 2025. Source: Heidi Levine. Image on this page: US spending for Israel’s genocide of Palestinians. Source: Brown University and Aljazeera.
