Ten percent of Gaza’s population has been directly killed or injured by US-made munitions since the start of the genocide
Reposted from The Cradle, October 07, 2025
The US has provided Israel with $21.7 billion in military aid since the start of the genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, policy analyst and senior Quincy Institute research fellow William D. Hartung wrote in a paper for the Watson School of International and Public Affairs.
The paper was released on the second anniversary of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, as Israel’s genocidal war entered its third year.
“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 in the years to come,” the paper reads.
Washington has also spent between $9.65 and $12.07 billion on operations in Yemen and the wider region sparked by or in support of Israeli military operations” since 7 October 2023, according to a companion report written by Harvard Kennedy School’s Linda Bilmes and cited by Hartung.
In total, the number stands at between $31.35 and $33.77 billion in “two years of post-10/7 wars.”
US President Donald Trump is now seeking congressional approval to sell Israel $6.4 billion in support equipment and weapons, including attack helicopters and troop carriers.
Another companion report by University of Oxford professor Neta Crawford notes that more than 10 percent of Gaza’s population has been directly killed or injured in the two years of brutal war.
“The destruction of infrastructure – including energy, water, sanitation, agriculture, housing, and healthcare – [has] rendered the conditions of life so difficult as to cause long-term harm for the rest of the population,” Crawford wrote.
Citing an official death toll, Crawford adds that 67,075 Palestinians have been killed and 169,430 injured – a total of 236,505 casualties.
However, in July, The Lancet medical journal published a research correspondence on the difficulty of accounting for the number of those killed by Israel’s war on Gaza, highlighting that both direct and indirect deaths should be considered.
It said at the time that if the war were to end immediately, taking into account indirect deaths from disease and shortages caused by the war, up to 598,000 Palestinian deaths is a possibility.
The reports come as Israel continues deadly strikes across Gaza despite highly critical ceasefire talks and a claim that Tel Aviv’s forces have shifted to ‘defensive’ operations.
Israeli ground operations have also continued. Troops carried out several incursions in Gaza City, while targeting displaced Palestinians returning to their homes with shelling and gunfire.
Tel Aviv has openly declared its intention to remain inside Gaza. While the 20-point Trump plan theoretically envisions an eventual withdrawal from the strip, it allows Israeli forces to remain on the perimeters of Gaza and establish a buffer zone until the strip is “secure from terror.”
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