Israeli forces have been carrying out barbaric attacks on the besieged Gaza for a year. And the United States is providing most of the weapons behind these attacks. The country has provided a record amount of military aid to Israel since the start of the war on October 7 last year.
Al Jazeera reported on Monday, citing the report of Brown University's Costs of War project, that since the start of the war, the United States has sent $1,790 million in military aid to Israel.
According to the report, $4 billion is being spent to re-strengthen Israel's Iron Dome and David's Sling missile defenses, as well as massive cash subsidies for guns and jet fuel.
The report also said that an additional $4.86 billion has been allocated to US military operations in the Middle East over the past year. These funds are provided to cover the cost of US military operations to counter attacks by Yemen's armed Houthi group in support of the people of Gaza.
This calculation was made by Linda J. Bilmes, a professor at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. He has overseen US war spending since the September 11 attacks. He is accompanied by researchers William D. Hartung and Stephen Semler.
Earlier, in an announcement on September 23, the United States announced an additional $8.7 billion military aid package to Israel. The country has announced that the package will be given to Israel as support for its military activities.
Meanwhile, despite international sanctions, Israeli forces continue to attack Gaza using US weapons. They have bombed more than 40,000 Hamas targets in Gaza this year.
On Monday, Israel's military said that during this time, Israeli soldiers found the mouth of 4,700 Hamas tunnels. Destroyed a thousand rocket launcher sites.
Citing the Israeli military, Reuters reported that eight brigade commanders, 30 battalion commanders and 165 company commanders have been killed in Gaza since the start of the war.
Despite the number of casualties, Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal said that what Israel is doing in Gaza is only comparable to the Holocaust. In a speech given on Monday morning, he also said that victory over the Israelis will come soon.
The Hamas leader also said that the October 7 incident happened because all kinds of political settlement had stopped. After that day Hamas achieved its strategic results.
At this time, he thanked Hezbollah, Houthis and other groups that supported the Palestinian people and Hamas. Meshal also thanked the Arab countries for funding Gaza.
He claimed that Israel has opened a new war front in Lebanon after failing to achieve its goals in Gaza. At this time, he also claimed that Israel is also conspiring against Jordan and Egypt.
Note that after Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, the country started attacking Gaza and Lebanon.
Meshal said that while Israel has made some progress against Iran and Hezbollah, it has been defeated overall. At this time, he assured the Palestinians, "Don't be disappointed, we will be victorious soon."
Israel started operations in Gaza by announcing the elimination of Hamas from last October 7. That campaign is still going on. And during this war, there is not a single day that a Palestinian is not killed by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF).
41 thousand 909 Palestinians have been killed. And more than 97 thousand people were injured. In response to this, Israel has been the victim of counter-attacks several times. They have also killed a total of 729 Israeli soldiers so far. Of which 347 people were killed during the ground operation in Gaza.
