USA Aids Israel With 50,000 Tons of Weapons

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August 26, 2024

The Israeli Defense Ministry stated, Monday, the United States has provided Israel 50,000 tons of military equipment and hardware since it launched its onslaught on the Gaza Strip after 7^th October, 2023.

This piece of news is being carried not only by the social media but by many news websites in the region and worldwide.

The 50,000 tons figure has been delivered to Israel through 500 mega transport planes and 107 ships delivering hardware through sea.

“The equipment procured and transported includes armored vehicles, munitions, ammunition, personal protection gear, and medical equipment, which are crucial for sustaining the IDF (Israeli army)’s operational capabilities during the ongoing war,” the ministry added according to Anadolu.

Payday: Washington sent over 50,000 tons of military equipment to Israel — Tel Aviv

The Israeli military said 500 planes and 107 ships have transported US equipment to the country, totaling over 50,000 tons of military aid.

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One blogger writes “the history books will record the US as the principle enabler of the Gaza genocide, while international courts won’t dare to issue arrest warrants for Biden administration officials.

Everyday that the US can freely provide more weapon’s for Israel’s genocide is further proof that the ‘rules-based order’ is nothing more than a farce.”

US military aid to Israel, which is usually $3.8 billion per year, now stands at at least at $15 billion following a congressional aid package that passed in April, the New Arab stated.

On 13 August, the Biden Administration approved an arms sale of up to $20 billion which included the sale of 50 F-15IA jets, an Israeli variant of the new F-15EX Eagle II, and 25 upgrade packages to Israel’s existing F-15 fleet. They are expected to arrive in 2029 at the earliest.

As reported by military correspondent Avi Ashkenazi from the Hebrew newspaper Maariv, the F-15EX fighter jets included in this deal are among the most advanced offensive aircraft in the world, offering capabilities that will significantly bolster the Israeli Air Force’s dominance across the region. This comes even as Israel continues to bombard Gaza, as well as other countries in the region, risking an escalation of the situation in the region according to the Quds News Network.

Israel has killed over 40,000 Palestinians and wounded over 93,000 in the Gaza Strip since 7 October.

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Dr. Marwan Asmar holds a PhD from Leeds University and is a freelance writer specializing on the Middle East. He has worked as a journalist since the early 1990s in Jordan and the Gulf countries, and been widely published, including at Albawaba, Gulf News, Al Ghad, World Press Review and others.

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Moshe Ya’alon: ‘Israelis Are Becoming ‘Judeo-Nazis’

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August 2, 2026

As per The Palestine Project

“Turning Israelis into Judeo-Nazis”. Moshe Ya’alon described what is happening in the occupied territory as a “disgrace for generations”.

“The Israeli government is encouraging Jewish pogromists to dispossess Palestinians of their land through abuse, including shooting at them,” Ya’alon told Ynet (June 14, 2026)

Ya’alon spent decades in the Israeli military and is known to have taken part in the 1982 invasion of Lebanon, the violent suppression of the first and second Palestinian intifadas, and the 2014 war on Gaza.

But in recent years, the 75-year-old has adopted a more critical tone towards the current government, accusing it in 2024 of carrying out ethnic cleansing in Gaza.

Reflecting on his time as army commander in the West Bank, Ya’alon said that he had acted to prevent the occupation from turning Israelis into “Judeo-Nazis”, as the late Israeli scholar Yeshayahu Leibowitz had once warned.

“Today, I can’t say he was wrong”

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Israeli Settler Violence Reach ‘All Time High’

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August 2, 2026

Violence in the occupied West Bank is worsening as the Israeli Government continues to approve new settlements while settlers and Israeli security forces have “often” acted together to attack local Palestinian communities, the UN’s human rights office (OHCHR) warned on Wednesday.

As of 20 July, the agency reports that 18 Palestinians have died this year in attacks involving settlers. Twelve died at the hands of settlers, three by Israeli forces and responsibility for the remaining three deaths is disputed.

Since Friday, eight Palestinians, including a boy, and two members of the Israeli military have also been killed in the region.

The number of settler attacks has increased each year since 2023 following the brutal Hamas attacks on southern Israeli communities, rising to 1,835 last year, according to the UN’s humanitarian aid office (OCHA).

There were about 190 attacks per month in the first four months of 2026, putting the West Bank on a trajectory to reach more than 2,000 attacks by the end of the year.

Alongside security forces, Israeli settlers in the West Bank, with financial incentives from the government, frequently attack families, burn mosques and destroy and confiscate property, OHCHR reported.

Movement restrictions preventing Palestinians from accessing essential services are now tighter than ever, the office added.

“We are alarmed by the Israeli Government’s announcement to further increase the number of settlements and outposts and open calls by Israeli leaders for revenge and collective punishment against Palestinian communities, accompanied by threats to turn the West Bank into another Gaza,” OHCHR spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani said.

Two-State solution must remain

Speaking from Jerusalem on Friday, UN Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Ramiz Alakbarov called the continued loss of life in the West Bank “deeply alarming”, urging Israel to hold perpetrators accountable and all actors to pursue a two-state solution.

“There is no military or violent solution to this conflict,” Mr. Alakbarov said.

In September, the General Assembly endorsed the New York Declaration, calling for a two-State solution, though Israel and the US voted against it.

The escalating violence in the West Bank comes two years after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled in an advisory opinion that Israel’s occupation of Gaza, East Jerusalem and the West Bank since 1967 is illegal and that countries should not recognise Israel’s actions related to the occupation. Israel quickly condemned the ruling.

Briefing the Security Council in New York on Tuesday, Mr. Alakbarov noted that Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich recently announced the approval of several new settlements, which the peace coordinator called “illegal under international law”.

“I call upon all parties to take urgent steps to reverse the dangerous trajectory in the West Bank,” he said.

On Monday, Israeli troops forcibly entered a UN facility in East Jerusalem where hundreds of Palestinian refugees receive free vocational training each year. The UN and its partners in the occupied territories condemned the action, which violates international law.

Call to end occupation

OHCHR’s Ms. Shamdasani reiterated on Wednesday the UN’s call for countries to work together to “bring an end to the Israeli occupation” of the West Bank.

“With attacks by Israeli settlers, and the creation of settlements and outposts hitting an all-time high, third States must act urgently and in unison to halt the continuing killing and dispossession of the Palestinian people,” she said. UN News