TEL AVIV (Dispatches) -- The 800th planeload of U.S. arms shipments landed in Tel Aviv on Tuesday, as the Israeli war ministry announced that, since the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza began, Washington has delivered over 90,000 tons of armaments and military equipment.
Tel Aviv called the constant U.S. arms shipments via sea and air “a significant component” in allowing the Zionist military to continue its ethnic cleansing campaign, which entered day 600 on Tuesday.
Over the past 19 months, the U.S. government has approved nearly $30 billion in arms sales to Israel, including $7.4 billion in missiles and bombs in February and a $3 billion “emergency” arms package in March.
According to a report published last year by Brown University’s Costs of War project, Washington spent at least $22.76 billion between October 7, 2023 and September 30, 2024 to support Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and fuel a brutal regional war.
The U.S. State Department has repeatedly used emergency authorities to expedite arms deliveries.
Last month, the U.S. Senate overwhelmingly voted to strike down two resolutions of disapproval regarding Washington’s massive arms transfers and other military assistance to Israel.
“Donald Trump is the greatest friend that Israel has ever had in the White House. He’s shown it by sending us all the munitions that were being held up. This way, he is giving Israel the tools we need to finish the job against Iran’s terror axis,” Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in March.
As of May 2025, over 100,000 tons of explosives have been dropped in Gaza, far surpassing 
the totals for Dresden and Hamburg during Operation Gomorrah, and London during the Blitz in WWII, which combined account for approximately 32,300 tons of explosives.
“I have never seen so many blast injuries in my life, and I’ve never seen so many injuries in Gaza in my life. We’re seeing these injuries in really small children as well,” British surgeon Victoria Rose told reporters this week after serving as a member of a medical delegation to Nasser Hospital in south Gaza’s Khan Yunis.
According to the Gaza Health Ministry, at least 54,000 people have been killed by Israel since the start of the U.S.-sponsored genocide.
The ministry said on Tuesday that at least 79 people were killed and another 163 wounded over the past 24 hours.
The death toll in Gaza now stands at 54,056 people killed since the start of the war, with thousands remaining missing, it added.
Scientific estimates published by The Lancet last year said the death toll in Gaza has been under-reported by at least 41 percent.
Last month, authorities in Gaza revealed that 65 percent of those killed by Israel are women, children, and the elderly. Moreover, officials say Israel wiped out more than 2,180 Palestinian families.