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President Trump and his press secretary, Caroline Levitt, claimed that the administration had stopped a plan to spend $ 50 million on a condom in favor of Gaza as part of the reassessment of the new federal financing administration.
“We have set and stopped 50 million dollars to be sent to Gaza to buy a condom of Hamas,” he said on Wednesday. “They used it as a way to make bombs.”
US State Department He said In 2021, Hamas and other armed groups enjoy the date of the launch of incendiary balloons towards Israel. The previous photos taken by the Associated Press in 2020 show masked men who hang incendiary devices with a male -filled condom and balloons.
However, Trump nor the officials in his administration did not provide evidence of the program they refer to or whether Hamas used a condom as a weapon in his war with Israel. The Office of Management and Budget and the US International Development Agency (USA International Development Agency) did not respond to questions from CBS News. The available numbers from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs show that pre -pregnancy charges, including a condom, to the Middle East cost much less than $ 50 million.
Without specifying whether it indicates a program that included 50 million dollars, a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Tami Bruce He said It included that the Federal Federation stopped in foreign assistance to prevent $ 102 million in “unjustified financing” to a contractor in Gaza, including funds for contraceptives.
In an email to the correspondents, Bruce added that the administration stopped financing $ 102 million in the international medical corps in Gaza.
in press releaseThe International Medicine Corps, a global aid organization based in Los Angeles, answered that it had received about $ 68 million from the United States Agency for International Development since October 7, 2023, and has used funding to operate two field hospitals in Gaza.
“The funding of an American government has not been used to purchase or distribute a condom,” said the organization’s statement.
The latest online report on contraceptive and condoms from the United States Agency for International Development, from Fiscal year 2023It states that the agency’s only cargo from contraceptive to the Middle East since the 2019 fiscal year has been made to Jordan and costs $ 4,680. The shipment contained contraceptives by injection and mouth, not a condom.
According to the US Agency for International Development Reports, the shipping methods are not caused to the Middle East annually. In the previous decade of the fiscal year 2023, there were only two shipments, including one in the 2019 fiscal year and one in the 2013 fiscal year. Fiscal year 2019The United States Agency for International Development spent a total of $ 1.1 million on contraceptives for Yemen, with a condom of 4 % of the total value.
It is unclear whether there are any planned carrots to Gaza for the fiscal year 2025. But the total value of all the contraceptives shipped from the United States from the United States Agency for International Development was $ 60 million in the fiscal year 2023, which included shipments to 23 nation.
Laila Ferres contributed to this report.
