LAHORE: Since the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel, the American government has spent $21.7 billion on military aid to Israel, according to the
Watson School of International and Public Affairs, which is part of the Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island in the United States.
This figure does not include the tens of billions of dollars in arms sales agreements that have been committed for weapons and services that will be paid for and delivered to Israel, whose military expenditure surged by 65 per cent to $46.5 billion or 8.8 per cent of GDP in 2024, the steepest annual increase since the Six-Day War in 1967.
The October 7, 2025 Watson School report, which actually quoted Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft’s senior research fellow, William Hartung, adds: “The United States 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 October 7, 2023, for a total of $31.35 - $33.77 billion and counting.
This spending has come with an extensive human toll: over 10 per cent of the population of Gaza has been killed or injured, while at least 5.27 million people have been displaced in Gaza and the wider
region.
