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US President Donald Trump has boasted that his administration had stopped sending $ 50 million of condoms to bombs to Gaza.
Trump did not provide any evidence of his allegations – that the condom was sent to Gaza or that Hamas used birth control methods to make bombs – and left many people wondering what the American president is talking about.
But perhaps there is an explanation. One strange.
Here is what you need to know about Trump’s claim that the United States was sending a condom to Hamas until the flow stopped:
What exactly does Trump think?
Trump has submitted a claim of contraceptive while inserting his administration’s achievements since he arrived in his post.
Trump said on Wednesday: “We have set and stopped $ 50 million to be sent to Gaza to buy a condom of Hamas,” Trump said on Wednesday. They used it as a way to make bombs. What about that? “
Caroline Levitt, the White House press secretary, made a similar request on Tuesday during a press conference for the first time. It stated that the Ministry of Governmental efficiency (Doge) and the Office of Administration and Budget (OMB) found that there are approximately $ 50 million of taxpayers who came out of the door to finance the condom in Gaza. “
The alleged aid described “a waste to combat taxpayer money.”
Jesse Wattars, the host of a dialogue program that tends to maintain the Fox News, said that Hamas was using American shipments that are not present to make “condom bombs” and floating explosive balloons full of explosives to Israel. Did any evidence support this flexible claim bombs? no.
Why did the White House a condom?
Trump appears to have made the accusation of framing Gaza as an example of spending US external aid. His administration justified his suspension of almost all external aid by highlighting the examples of “terrible financing”, such as contraceptives and reproductive healthcare programs.
The administration says it is conducting a review to ensure that tens of billions of dollars of US foreign aid are in line with the “first America” foreign policy and not a waste of taxpayer money.
The United States is so large, the largest donor to help worldwide. In the fiscal year 2023, $ 72 billion of assistance around the world spent everything from women’s health in conflict areas to clean water, HIV/AIDS, energy security and anti -corruption.
Soon after returning to his post for a second term on January 20, Trump ordered a 90 -day freeze on foreign assistance to ensure that aid is compatible with his administration policies, which oppose abortion programs and transgender rights.
Foreign Minister Marco Rubio said in a memorandum that the United States was almost freezing all the disbursement of aid except for food assistance and military assistance to Egypt and Israel.
How many condoms can you buy at $ 50 million?
International Refugee President Jeremy Konick, who supervised the COVID-19 aid from the United States Agency for International Development (US Development Agency) by President Joe Biden’s management as unrealistic.
On Wednesday, he wrote on X. What is happening here is not a billion condoms per Gaza. What is going on is that BROS AT DOGE apparently cannot read GOVT data schedules. “
So see – on something “condom” in Gaza.
The US Agency for International Development purchases a condom for about $ 0.05 each.
50 million dollars will be a billion condom.
What is happening here is not a billion condoms per male.
What is going on is that bros at Doga apparently cannot read GOVT data schedules.
Jeremy Konyndyk in Jeremykonyndyk.bsky.social (Jeremykonyndyk) January 29, 2025
Will the United States really send $ 50 million in a condom to Gaza?
There is no evidence available to the public on plans for millions of dollars in taxpayers that will be spent on financing a condom in Gaza, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not respond to request evidence from Reuters news agency.
However, there is a lot of evidence that appears to refute Trump’s claim.
In a statement on Wednesday, the International Medicine Corps (IMC), an organization that received money for us to provide medical care in Gaza, detailed its work in the pocket. He said: “No American government funding was used to buy or distribute a condom, or provide family planning services.”
Its statement added that IMC has received more than 68 million dollars from the United States Agency for International Development since October 7, 2023, which has been used to operate two large field hospitals in Gaza, including surgical care, treatment of malnutrition, and the mother’s emergency care.
No reports available to the public by DOGE or OMB reflect a plan to spend $ 100 million on IMC operations in Gaza.
Reports for the 2007 financial years until 2023 on the contraceptive and condoms shipped by the United States Agency for International Development to the rest of the world, do not show any record of the condom that is shipped to Gaza.
The former Deputy Assistant Minister of Defense in the Middle East, Dana Strol, said in the position of X on Wednesday that the US Agency for International Development did not spend money on Gaza in the fiscal year 2023.
The US International Development Agency report shows that the United States has provided $ 60.8 million in contraceptives and condom to four regions – the Middle East, Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean Sea region – in the previous fiscal year.
The Middle East received only 45,681 dollars, while Africa received more than $ 54 million, or 89 percent of the birthday in the fiscal year 2023.
The report added that the amount of 45,681 dollars was fully submitted to Jordan and included oral contraceptive and injectable pregnancy players, but it did not include the condom.
The US Agency for International Development reports also show delivery operations to the Middle East in the 2019, 2013, 2012, 2008, 2008 and 2007, and none of them mentioned any delivery operations to Gaza.
According to the Trump administration, the US Agency for International Development provided $ 1.1 million to the Middle East in the 2019 fiscal year. All commodities went to Yemen, including male, female condoms and multiple types of contraceptives.
Was Trump thinking about Gaza different?
The US Department of Health and Humanitarian Services (HHS) is funding organizations all over the world that implement health -related projects, including reproductive health.
Can Trump be and his administration refer to a different Gaza? After all, there are more than ten places in the world called Gaza, including two combinations in the United States.
Currently, why Trump made the claim and what evidence was not known.
But it is interesting to note that, according to the Grants HHS database, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric Aids has received more than $ 83 million in financing since 2021.
Funds are set for reproductive health projects in two of the country’s provinces: Inhabane and Gaza.
This funding is expected to continue until September 2026, according to the details of the grant.
It is not clear whether Mozambique has lost funding due to any confusion about the boycott of Gaza.
