The shocking statistics of US military support for Tel Aviv in the Gaza war

According to Fars News Agency, the Israeli website YNET (Yediot Aharanot) published a report today (December 27) that American military aid to Tel Aviv has reached the highest level since the beginning of the war against Gaza. The time of the 1973 war has arrived.

This website wrote, quoting informed sources, that in recent weeks, the Israeli army has requested from the Pentagon to provide more Apache helicopters to Tel Aviv to strengthen its air force system in the Gaza war. to accompany the ground forces in the skies of the Gaza Strip in conflicts and complex battles. Although Washington rejected Israel’s request to acquire more Apache fighters, it has not yet had the last word on the matter, especially as Israel’s push to acquire more Apache helicopters for the military continues.

According to this report, Washington’s military aid to Tel Aviv includes airplanes, ships, thousands of weapon systems and ammunition such as tank shells, special aircraft bombs, drones, night vision equipment, radars and even armored vehicles. It was an ambulance. This equipment was distributed among “Israeli units on all fronts and even the West Bank” to effectively meet Tel Aviv’s military needs. This American military equipment has also reached Israel from the American army’s warehouses in the Middle East, and without it, the Israeli army would have had problems advancing in the battle and focusing on maintaining its deterrent power, which was one of the stated goals of this war.

Winenet claimed at the same time that “the United States continues to pressure Israel not to widen the scope of this war and not to start a war with Hezbollah.” Because the occupying army has explained in its request that it has used its Apache attack helicopters in the Gaza Strip to carry out operations against Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon and to attack targets in the West Bank.

Bloomberg also revealed a few weeks ago that the United States has 2,000 Hellfire missiles that can be launched from Apache helicopters, as well as an assortment of mortars and other munitions, including 36,000 30 mm cannon rounds, 1,800 M141 anti-rocket munitions and at least 3,500 The requested night vision has been delivered to Tel Aviv.

Informed sources say that the Minister of War of the Zionist regime Yoav Galant discussed this issue in a closed conversation with his American counterpart, Lloyd Austin, who last week to Israel had traveled, he said. The occupying army has a total of two combat helicopter squadrons, 190 and 113, which have been operating 24/7 in the Gaza Strip since last October 7. 27 December) by translating and republishing this report, he wrote: American aid to Israel constitutes 55% of the total American aid to the world, which has been around 130 billion dollars since 1948, but there are reports that indicate that the value These aids have reached 270 billion dollars. Meanwhile, the United States of America approved an aid package to Israel for the years 2019-2028 worth 38 billion dollars during Obama’s presidency, which included the financing of joint military projects to protect against missiles.

US military aid to Israel accounts for 18 percent of Israel’s military budget, according to which it spends $815 million annually on weapons and $500 million to strengthen its missile defenses, including the Iron Dome. assigns The American military aid in the development of the “Iron Dome” anti-missile system against the Palestinian resistance is more than one billion dollars, and the development of the “Hits” anti-missile system is more than two billion dollars. America deployed the “X-band” radar system in the occupied Palestinian territories, which has the ability to detect enemy missiles and, in addition, provides Israel’s need for F-35 fighter planes.

In addition to all these cases, US military support for Israel also includes the storage of military equipment for Israel so that its forces can use it in an emergency, as in the Second Lebanon War in 2006. And the third Gaza war happened in 2014. US aid to Israel in the past decades has effectively helped to strengthen its military, and in this way, the US has become the main source of financing and the main supplier of weapons needed by Tel Aviv.

In 2008, the US Congress acknowledged that with this superiority, Israel would be able to eliminate any conventional threat from any other country or through the alliance of several countries or several non-international groups and organizations. US aid to the Israeli army shows the country’s desire to strengthen its power and maintain its qualitative military superiority over neighboring armies and to compensate for Israel’s weaknesses in the region.

Israel is at the top of the countries to which America has provided the most aid after World War II. According to analysts and political observers, Washington’s actions towards Tel Aviv show that it is very worried about the increase in tension in the Middle East and the spread of war in the region, and for this reason, it seeks to show its military presence in the region in order to prevent the spread of the war. be in the region

According to the available statistics, although Tel Aviv imports significant weapons from Britain, Italy, Canada and Germany, 92% of what Israel imports from the United States. . American writer and analyst William Hartung recently acknowledged this in a note published on the Nation website and wrote: “Israel’s arsenal and its arms industry are largely built in the United States and financed by the United States. ».

Bloomberg writes, citing a document regarding US military aid to Tel Aviv during the recent Gaza war, that the United States provided Israel with 57,000 155mm artillery shells. has sent This caused one of the active humanitarian aid groups as well as security experts to ask the Biden government not to send this type of ammunition to Israel in a letter to the US Secretary of Defense. Because these bullets are “inherently blind to fire and have a high error radius, often landing within 25 meters of the intended target, and will be especially devastating in a densely populated place like Gaza”.

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