Is America sending $ 50m to Gaza as Trump’s claim? , Israel-Felistine Conflict News
The United States President Donald Trump has claimed that his administration had stopped sending $ 50M to Gaza in a bomb -making condom.
Trump did not provide any evidence for his claims – that condom was being sent to Gaza or that Hamas is using contraceptives to make bombs – and left many people thinking about what the US President talks about Was stayed
But perhaps there is an explanation. A bizarre.
Here you need to know about Trump’s claim that America was sending condoms to Hamas until he stopped the flow:
What do Trump really think?
Trump claimed contraception by listing the achievements of his administration since coming to the office.
“We are being sent to Gaza to buy condoms for Hamas,” Trump said on Wednesday. “They used them as a method of making bombs. how about that?”
The White House press secretary, Karolin Levitt made a similar claim on Tuesday during his first news briefing. He said that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and Management and Budget Office (OMB) “found that there were 50 million taxpayers to be dollars who had gone out of the door to fund condoms in Gaza.”
He called the alleged assistance “a predecessor of the taxpayer’s money”.
Jesse Waters, the hosts of a conservative-blooming talk show on Fox News, said Hamas was using US shipments to make “condom bombs”, which floated explosive balloons in Israel. Did he share any evidence to support that bomb-hospital claim? No.
Why did the White House claim condoms?
Trump has accused Gaza of frameing Gaza as an example of useless American foreign aid spending. His administration has upheld almost all foreign aids by highlighting examples of “egoistic funding”, such as contraceptive and reproductive health programs.
The administration says that it is a review to ensure that US foreign aid has been formed with a “US First” foreign policy of Tens of billions of billions of billions of rupees and is not a waste of taxpayer’s money.
The US is the biggest assistance ever so far. In the financial year 2023, it distributed $ 72BN assistance worldwide on everything from women’s health in conflict areas, which is everything in the struggle areas to reach clean water, HIV/AIDS treatment, energy security and anticircriptry work. .
Immediately after returning to office for the second term on 20 January, Trump ordered a 90-day freeze on foreign aid to ensure that assistance should be in line with their administration policies, opposing abortion, transgender rights and diversity programs She does
State Secretary Marco Rubio said in a memorandum that the US was freezing almost all assistance to Egypt and Israel except for emergency food assistance and military assistance.
How many condoms can you buy with $ 50m?
The International President of the refugees, Jeremy Koninic, who oversee the US agency for the International Development (USAID’s) Covid-19 aid portfolio for the administration of the President Joe Biden, refused Trump and Levit claims as unrealistic.
“USAID buys condoms for approximately $ 0.05,” he wrote on X on Wednesday. “$ 50m will be a billion condom. What is going on here is not a billion condom for Gaza. What is going on that BROS in Dogge cannot clearly read the government spreadsheet.”
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– Jeremy Koninic is on jeremykonyndyk.bsky.social (@jeremykonyndyk) January 29, 2025
Was America really going to send Gaza to $ 50m to condom?
There is no public evidence of plans for millions of taxpayers dollars spent on funding condoms in Gaza, and an official of the state did not respond to a evidence request from the Reuters News Agency.
However, there is a lot of evidence that refutes Trump’s claim.
In a statement on Wednesday, the International Medical Corps (IMC), an organization that received American funds to provide medical care in Gaza, expanded its work in the enclave. It said: “No American government funds were used to purchase or distribute condoms, nor provide family-employment services.”
Its statement said that IMC has received more than $ 68m from USAID since October 7, 2023, which has been used to operate two large area hospitals in Gaza, including surgical care, malnutrition treatment and emergency maternal And newborn care includes.
No publicly available report by DOGE or OMB reflects a plan to spend $ 100M on the operation of IMC in Gaza.
The report for the financial year 2007 via 2023 shows no record of condoms sent to Gaza in the rest of the world sent by USAID on contraceptive and condom.
A former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East, Dana Stro said in an X post on Wednesday that the USAID did not spend money on Gaza in FY 2023.
The April USAID report shows that the US gave $ 60.8m in contraceptives and condoms in four regions – Middle East, Africa, Asia and Latin America and Caribbean – in the last financial year.
The Middle East received only $ 45,681, while Africa received more than $ 54m of contraceptives in FY 2023, or more than 89 percent.
The report stated that $ 45,681 was fully built for Jordan and included oral contraceptives and contraceptives of injections, but did not include condoms.
The USAID report also showed delivery in the Middle East in the financial years 2019, 2013, 2012, 2009, 2008 and 2007, none of which mention any delivery to Gaza.
Under the Trump administration, the USAID distributed $ 1.1m in the Middle East in the financial year 2019. All objects went to Yemen, which included male and female condoms and many types of contraceptives.
Was Trump thinking about a different Gaza?
The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) funds organizations worldwide who complete health related projects including reproductive health.
Could it be that Trump and his administration were referring to a different Gaza? After all, there are more than a dozen places in the world, named Gaza, which includes two communities in the United States.
At the moment, why did Trump claim and what proof is unknown to him.
But it is interesting to note that according to HHS Grant Database, Elizabeth Glasar Pediatric AIDS Foundation in Mozambique has received more than $ 83m in funding since 2021.
Money was assigned to breeding health projects in two provinces of the country: Inhmben and Gaza.
According to the grant details, this money is expected to continue till September 2026.
It is not clear whether Mozambique has lost money due to any confusion on its Gaza province.
