Experts have said U.S. arms represent a significant proportion of the weapons being used by Israeli forces in Gaza.
Over the past seven decades, as Israeli forces have violently expelled, killed and suppressed Palestinians, the U.S. has provided military support underscoring many of these incursions — to the tune of over 70,000 weapons, new data shows.
According to an analysis of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute Arms Transfers Database by Axios, the U.S. has transferred a huge cache of weapons to Israel since 1950 — shortly after the beginning of the Nakba, or “catastrophe,” in which Zionist forces expelled hundreds of thousands of Palestinians and established the state of Israel.
Most of these weapons are missiles and munitions, with munitions becoming the dominant weapon sent by the U.S. over the past 30 years, the analysis shows; Joint Direction Action Munitions (JDAMs), which have likely been used amid Israel’s current genocide of Gaza, are the most common singular weapon type. The U.S. has also provided Israel with aircrafts and ground vehicles like tanks.
Israel is the single largest recipient of U.S. foreign aid since World War II. Since the Nakba — which also involved U.S. support — the U.S. has provided Israel $260 billion in economic and military funding. In 2022, the U.S. provided Israel with $3.2 billion in aid, and Congress and President Joe Biden have backed sending an additional $14.3 billion to Israel this year on top of the over $3 billion officials have already committed for 2023.
So far this year, Axios found that the U.S. has provided Israel with at least 16 types of weapons. Experts have said that American weapons are likely being used “extensively” by Israeli forces against Palestinians in Gaza, while former State Department official Josh Paul, who specialized in arms transfers, has said that the U.S. “has provided much of the bombs, shells and ammunition causing these deaths.”
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