The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) has accused Israel of lack of transparency regarding its possession and spending on nuclear weapons.

Since the 1960s, Israel has continued the policy of nuclear ambiguity regarding its possession of nuclear weapons and the amount of spending on its program.

Susie Snyder, the organization's program coordinator, indicated that projections show that Israel spent $1.1 billion on nuclear weapons in 2023, while it does not publicly disclose the details of these expenses. Snyder indicated that nine countries possess nuclear weapons and spent $91.4 billion on these weapons in 2020. 2023 alone.

Snyder stressed in her speech that the world knows that Israel possesses about 90 nuclear warheads, according to estimates by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, and despite this, Israel has not admitted that it possesses these weapons, which raises the concern of the international community about the dangers of this nuclear arsenal. Snyder stressed that nuclear weapons They constitute a “global threat” that transcends borders, as they can affect countries far from the sites of their use. She stressed that getting rid of these weapons requires broad international cooperation and the activation of international agreements, such as the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which calls for nuclear disarmament. At the conclusion of her speech, Snyder called on Israel for greater transparency regarding its nuclear program, saying that this "would be beneficial for the entire world" in confronting nuclear challenges and ensuring international peace and security.

In October 2023, Revital Talli Gottliff, a Likud MK, called for the use of “nuclear doomsday weapons against Gaza and razing it to the ground.”

In November 2023, Israeli Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu did not rule out the possibility of dropping a nuclear bomb on the Gaza Strip, considering it “one of the ways” to deal with the Strip, in his response to a journalist’s question about whether he expected Israel to drop “some kind of attack.” Nuclear bombs on Gaza

Israel adopts a policy of “nuclear blackout” and refuses to allow any international bodies to inspect its suspicious sites, or to abide by any international agreements to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons.