Axios quoted two American sources as saying that the administration of US President Joe Biden has notified Congress of a potential arms deal with Israel worth eight billion dollars, including ammunition for fighter jets, attack helicopters, and artillery shells.

This deal is expected to be the last arms sales approval to Israel by the Biden administration.

This comes at a time when reports have indicated allegations by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his team that the Biden administration has imposed a "silent ban" on arms sales to Israel in recent months.

It is noteworthy that the size of American spending on Israel in its war on Gaza, and related American operations, amounted to at least $22.76 billion (and the number is still increasing) between October 7, 2023, and September 30, 2024.

While the total amount of American spending to finance the Israeli war of annihilation (at least $22.76 billion) is considered “conservative” by the prestigious Brown University, it includes only military aid funding, and does not include any other economic costs.

That figure includes $17.9 billion directly approved by the U.S. government as “security assistance for Israeli military operations in Gaza and elsewhere since October 7—far more than in any other year since the United States began giving military aid to Israel in 1959—and $4.3 billion in U.S. aid tied to congressional legislation on domestic projects, according to the Watson Institute.

Thus, since coming to power on January 20, 2021, US President Biden has granted Israel $42.7 billion, more than the total amount allocated to Israel over ten years according to the agreement between former President Barack Obama and Congress in 2016.

In May, President Biden suspended a shipment of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel, warning of a large-scale military operation in the city of Rafah. But Israel attacked Rafah on May 6, and Biden lifted the ban a week later. The administration said it had not halted other arms shipments, and dismissed comments from Netanyahu, who complained in June that the United States was slowing down arms deliveries.

Despite demands from some Democrats to link arms sales to Israel to a mechanism to address the war and humanitarian situation in Gaza, Biden has refused to put conditions on the deal, according to Axios.

The website stated that the deal includes AIM-120C-8 AMRAAM air-to-air missiles, which aim to counter air threats, including drones.

It also includes AGM-114 Hellfire missiles for attack helicopters and 155mm artillery shells.

The deal also includes small diameter bombs, as well as JDAM kits that convert conventional bombs into precision-guided munitions, as well as 500-pound warheads and bomb fuzes.