PTThe Paper Trail Project

Issue hub · Middle East

Israel / Palestine

Follow U.S. money through appropriations and assistance programs, then into organizations, people, policy, and documented consequences.

Follow the money→ Follow the organizations→ Follow the people→ Follow the policy

Method note: Program-level relationships do not establish that a specific appropriated dollar reached a named company.

Overview

What This Hub Traces

Trace documented U.S. assistance, military programs, companies, lobbying, political money, congressional action, diplomacy, and human impact connected to Israel and Palestine.

Key figures

What Can Be Measured

No verified indicators are published. Data unavailable until a sourced, reviewed record is added.

Money flows

Where Does the Money Go?

reported · program-level

$38B

FY2019–FY2028 security-assistance memorandum

United States → Israel

The memorandum describes $33 billion in Foreign Military Financing and $5 billion for cooperative missile-defense programs over ten fiscal years, subject to annual congressional appropriation.

reported · program-level

$3.3B

Annual Foreign Military Financing level under the memorandum

United States → Israel

The State Department describes an annual $3.3 billion FMF level during the ten-year memorandum.

reported · program-level

$500M

Annual cooperative missile-defense level under the memorandum

United States → Israel

The State Department describes an annual $500 million level for cooperative missile-defense programs.

Relationship graph

Follow the Trail

Security assistance to procurement

A program-level path. It does not claim that every appropriated dollar can be traced to a named contractor.

Congressional appropriation→Foreign Military Financing→U.S.-origin defense procurement→Contractor records

Connected records

Organizations, People & Policy

Government involvement

U.S. Department of State

administers foreign policy

The State Department is a named U.S. institution in the security-assistance framework.

Political influence

American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)

campaign-finance organization

The Federal Election Commission identifies AIPAC PAC as a federal political committee. It is included here as a political-influence organization relevant to this issue; this link does not attribute any particular policy position or expenditure without a separate sourced record.

Foreign assistance

Annual cooperative missile-defense level under the memorandum

documented financial flow

The State Department describes an annual $500 million level for cooperative missile-defense programs.

FY2019–FY2028 security-assistance memorandum

documented financial flow

The memorandum describes $33 billion in Foreign Military Financing and $5 billion for cooperative missile-defense programs over ten fiscal years, subject to annual congressional appropriation.

Annual Foreign Military Financing level under the memorandum

documented financial flow

The State Department describes an annual $3.3 billion FMF level during the ten-year memorandum.

Programs & systems

Foreign Military Financing

security assistance program

FMF is the military-financing component named in the memorandum.

Cooperative missile defense

security assistance program

The memorandum separately identifies cooperative missile-defense funding.

Timeline

What Happened, and When?

September 14, 2016 · Security assistance

United States and Israel sign ten-year assistance memorandum

The memorandum set planned security-assistance levels for FY2019 through FY2028, subject to congressional appropriation.

Follow the money: $38 billion over ten fiscal years: $33 billion FMF and $5 billion missile defense.

Human impact

Dated, Defined and Attributed

Human-impact figures are withheld unless the record includes a measurement date, geography, definition, and source. Data unavailable until a sourced, reviewed record is added.

Source transparency

Sources

OCHA Reported Impact Snapshot – Gaza Strip, 15 July 2026 ↗

United Nations OCHA · Humanitarian snapshot · 2026-07-15

Dated humanitarian-impact snapshot with attribution and methodology cautions.

U.S. Foreign Aid to Israel: Overview and Developments since October 7, 2023 ↗

Congressional Research Service · Congressional report · 2025-05-28

CRS overview of U.S. assistance authorities, appropriations, missile defense, and developments after October 7, 2023.

Gaza Strip ↗

un.org · Discovered official source

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Legal Consequences Arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in OPT – Position Paper of the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the OPT, including East Jerusalem, and in Israel – September 2023 ↗

un.org · Discovered official source

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Gaza damage assessment must require end to occupation and discrimination of Palestinians: UN experts – 29 April 2026 ↗

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Gaza: UN experts demand safe passage for Freedom Flotilla Coalition – 2 June 2025 ↗

un.org · Discovered official source

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Advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the Obligations of Israel in relation to the presence and activities of the United Nations, other international organizations and third States in and in relation to the Occupied Palestinian Territory (A/RES/80/116) ↗

un.org · Discovered official source

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ICJ Authorizes the African Union to Participate in Proceedings on Legal Consequences Arising From the Policies and Practices of Israel in OPT – Press Release ↗

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Additional provisional measures. ICJ Order of 28 March 2024 ↗

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ICJ Organizes Proceedings on Case Involving Policies and Practices of Israel in OPT – Press Release ↗

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The Republic of South Africa submits an urgent request for the indication of additional provisional measures and the modification of the Court’s prior provisional measures Order and decision (South Africa v. Israel) – ICJ Press Release and Application, 6 March 2024 ↗

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Written statement of Mexico – 4 March 2025 ↗

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Written statement of the Union of Comoros – 4 March 2025 ↗

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Introductory Note (documents received from the Secretariat of the United Nations) ↗

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Israel’s continuous assaults on Birzeit University are an attack on education itself: UN experts – 22 January 2026 ↗

un.org · Discovered official source

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Israel’s death penalty law constitutes discriminatory regime of capital punishment: UN experts – 2 April 2026 ↗

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Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry (A/80/337) examining land and housing in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and in Israel and presents a summary of the Commission’s findings on the crime of genocide – 14 August 2025 ↗

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Report of the Commission of Inquiry (A/HRC/59/26): Israeli attacks on educational, religious and cultural sites in the Occupied Palestinian Territory amount to war crimes and the crime against humanity of extermination 6 May 2025 ↗

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Decision of the Court on South Africa’s request for additional provisional measures – ICJ Press Release ↗

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The long human tragedy of the Nakba and Israel’s settler colonial genocide – UN Special Rapporteur Albanese – Press conference – 31 October 2024 ↗

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States must stop Israel before all journalists in Gaza are silenced: UN experts – 4 September 2025 ↗

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UN experts call for immediate suspension of EU-Israel trade agreement as ‘minimum requirement’ under international law – 20 April 2026 ↗

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UN experts condemn ‘Board of Peace’, call for a reparative, rights-based approach to reconstruction in Gaza – 2 March 2026 ↗

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Gaza: Israel must restore UN humanitarian system to stave off starvation, say UN experts – 7 August 2025 ↗

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UN experts appalled by relentless Israeli attacks on Gaza’s healthcare system – 13 August 2025 ↗

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UN experts call for end to anguish of families seeking truth about disappeared loved ones in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel – 18 July 2025 ↗

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Written reply of Colombia to the question put by Vice-President Sebutinde – 7 May 2025 ↗

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Written reply of Egypt to the question put by Judge Cleveland at the end of the hearing held on 2 May 2025 – 7 May 2025 ↗

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Written reply of France to the question put by Vice-President Sebutinde – 7 May 2025 ↗

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Written reply of the State of Palestine to the question put by Vice-President Sebutinde – 7 May 2025 ↗

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International Court of Justice and the question of Palestine ↗

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Special Procedures of the UN Human Rights Council and the Question of Palestine ↗

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Ten-Year Memorandum of Understanding Between the United States and Israel ↗

U.S. Department of State · Government statement

Official description of the FY2019–FY2028 security-assistance memorandum.

https://www.un.org/unispal/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Gaza_Reported_Impact_Snapshot_15_July_2026.pdf ↗

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American Israel Public Affairs Committee Political Action Committee ↗

Federal Election Commission · Official campaign-finance record

Official FEC committee record for AIPAC PAC.