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US spends more than $20bn in aid to Israel, Middle East conflicts: Report

The United States has spent $22.76bn in support of Israel’s war on Gaza and operations against the Houthis in Yemen, according to a report by Brown University’s Watson Institute.

The $17.9bn in military aid to Israel since the war in Gaza started a year ago is the highest annual total ever, according to the report.

The aid to Israel is a mix of military financing, weapons sales, and transfers from US weapons stockpiles, according to the report, which is part of the institute’s Costs of War project.

A large part of the US-delivered arsenal is munitions, the report said, including artillery shells and 2,000-pound (907kg) bombs.

Unlike the US’s publicly documented military aid to Ukraine, details of some US military shipments to Israel are more elusive, so the $17.9 bn figure is incomplete, according to Brown researchers.

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