The United States has spent a whopping $22 billion on military aid to Israel and managing conflicts triggered by the ongoing Gaza war. This massive financial outlay was revealed in a new report analyzing US military spending in the Middle East.

The United States has spent a record of at least $17.9 billion on military aid to Israel since the war in Gaza began and led to escalating conflict around the Middle East, according to a report for Brown University’s Costs of War project,