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„In the two years since the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel, the U.S. government has spent $21.7 billion on #militaryaid to Israel and $9.65 - $12.07 billion on related operations in the wider #MiddleEast, for a total of over $31 billion and counting.”
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The Human Toll of the Gaza War: Direct and Indirect Death from 7 October 2023 to 3 October 2025
Since October 7, 2023, over ten percent of the population of Gaza has been directly killed or injured in two years of Israel’s war in Gaza. In addition, writes political scientist Neta Crawford (Co-Founder, Costs of War and Professor, University of Oxford), “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.”