US spent a record $17.9bn on military aid to Israel since 7 October: Report

The US has spent a record $17.9bn on military aid to Israel since the start of the war on Gaza, according to a report for Brown University’s Costs of War project, released on the anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel on 7 October 2023.

An additional $4.86bn has gone into stepped-up US military operations, including the cost of a navy-led campaign against Yemen's Houthis, the researchers say in the findings provided to the Associated Press.

The calculations were made by Linda J Bilmes, a professor at Harvard’s John F Kennedy School of Government, who assessed the cost of US wars since the September 11 attacks, along with researchers William D Hartung and Stephen Semler.