A view of a military plane which carries American armored SUVs landed in an airport in Tel Aviv, Israel on October 19, 2023.
The US military assistance includes artillery shells, armored vehicles and basic combat tools for soldiers, Yediot Ahronoth newspaper reported.
Israel's Defense Ministry estimates the cost of the current war on the Gaza Strip at around 65 billion shekels ($17 billion).
The newspaper, citing a Defense Ministry official, said the army had used most of the ammunition in its warehouses at the beginning of the war.
"But Israel managed to re-fill its warehouses in preparation for a possible large-scale war with the Lebanese Hezbollah group," it added.
At least 489 Israeli soldiers have been killed in clashes with Palestinian fighters in the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7, according to Israeli military figures.
Israel has pounded the Gaza Strip since a cross-border attack by the Palestinian group Hamas on Oct. 7, killing at least 20,674 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injuring 54,536 others, according to local health authorities.
Around 1,200 Israelis are believed to have been killed in the Hamas attack.
The Israeli onslaught has left Gaza in ruins, with half of the coastal territory's housing damaged or destroyed and nearly 2 million people displaced within the densely populated enclave amid shortages of food and clean water.
Reader Comments
Blockade Israel - on the seas, on land, underwater, in the air, and all other ways. Blockade the zionist. Most importantly - blockade them in your mind - their ideology - tis wrong - hateful, harmful and not mutual....the evidence is in....let the blood flow I reckon for Israel.
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The blood of destituteness - the blood of sand storm ripping upon your mind - the blood of the cedars from Lebanon.
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Let them reap what they have sown....and then - most important...
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Let the innocent ones in Gaza get the help they need.
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In the name of the baby Jesus.
BK
The only people telling lies about the Zionists are the Zionists. No one else needs anything but the truth.
As the article notes, "... cost of the current war on the Gaza Strip at around 65 billion shekels ($17 billion) ." Israel was already carrying a huge debt relative to their population - [Link] - a debt owed mostly to Americans - and now another 8% added to their grand total in just a few months of slaughter.
That is working out to more than $560 USD per American child, woman and man. Today. And it's only going to grow because you Americans will be supporting the rebuilding of greater Israel, the canal, the gas fields, etc...
How many Americans agree to spending a month worth of groceries to support Zion? How about double that by this time next year?
Sadly I don't think Donald Zion Trump will make things any better.
But I have a solution!
Rather than sending Israel more money, why don't you send them some (or all) of that man-power that is crossing your southern border? Send some to Kiev too. If you can afford to fly the illegals all over your huge country, you can afford to send them off-shore... No?
I see a major depletion of USA arms, via Ukraine & Israel which in my mind makes Taiwan ripe for the picking by China. Pretty sure the USA can not sustain 3 wars !!!
The above is PROOF
of war crimes continuing.
PROOF.
Lady Libra - she balances the scales....
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There is a place in the middle of it all - making itself a pariah - that place is on NOTICE.
We know - the scales of justice cannot be defiled.
Bullies always get killed in the end.
Last bully I killed almost killed me!
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The weapons just delivered are most likely to be off-target and the baby most likely to live.
Israel however is in for some difficult times when the whole wide world including the us of a decided to boycott and abandon the hate of baby-killing herod the second...