Sending US $ 50m. In condoms to Gaza that Trump claims? | Israel-Palestine Conflict News

US President Donald Trump has boasted that his administration had stopped $ 50 million. In bomb making of condoms from being sent to Gaza.

Trump presented no evidence of his claims – that condoms were sent to Gaza or that Hamas is using contraception to produce bombs – and left many people wondering what the US president was talking about.

But maybe there is an explanation. A Bisarr.

Here’s what you need to know about Trump’s claim that the United States sent condoms to Hamas until he stopped the power:

What thinks Trump thinks that happened?

Trump put forward the preventive while noting his administration’s results since he arrived.

“We identified and stopped $ 50 million. To be sent to Gaza to buy condoms for Hamas, ”Trump said Wednesday. “They used them as a method of making bombs. What about that? “

Karoline Leavitt, the press secretary in the White House, made a similar claim on Tuesday during her orientation of debut news. She said the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) “found that there were 50 million taxpayers dollars that went out the door to finance condoms in Gaza.”

She called the alleged help “an inappropriate waste of taxpayer money”.

Jesse Watters, hosting a conservative-bending talk show on Fox News, Hamas used the non-existent US shipments to produce “condom bombs”, liquid explosive balloons for Israel. Did he divide some proof to back up the bombastic claim? No.

Why did the White House claim condoms?

Trump seems to have made the accusation of hitting Gaza as an example of wasting US foreign aid spending. His administration has justified his suspension of almost all foreign aid by highlighting examples of “creepy funding”, such as contraception and reproductive health programs.

The administration says it is conducting a review to ensure that the tens of thousands of billions of dollars of US foreign aid are in line with Trump’s “America First” foreign policy and not a waste of taxpayer money.

The United States is by far the biggest auxiliary donor globally. In the financial year 2023, it paid out $ 72 billion. Assistance all over the world on everything from women’s health in conflict zones to access to clean water, HIV/AIDS treatments, energy security and anti -corruption work.

Shortly after returning to the office for another period on January 20, Trump ordered a 90-day freezing of foreign aid to ensure that assistance is in accordance with the policies of his administration against abortion, transient rights and diversity programs .

State Secretary Marco Rubio said in a memo that the United States freezes almost all aid payment except for relief and military assistance to Egypt and Israel.

How many condoms can you buy with $ 50m?

Refugee International President Jeremy Konyndyk, who monitored the US Agency for International Development (USAID’s) Covid-19 Assistance portfolio to President Joe Bid’s administration, rejected Trump’s and Leavitt’s claims as unrealistic.

“USAID acquires condoms for about $ 0.05 per Piece, “he wrote on Wednesday at X.” $ 50m would be a billion condoms. What’s going on here is not a billion condoms for Gaza. What is going on is that the brides on DOGE apparently cannot read government pieces. “

So look – on “Gaza condoms” things.

USAID acquires condoms for about $ 0.05 per Pcs.

$ 50 million Would be a billion condoms.

What’s going on is not a billion condoms for Gaza.

What is going on is that the brides on DOGE apparently cannot read government pieces.

– Jeremy Konyndyk is at Jeremiconydyk.bsky.social (@jeremykonyyk) 29 January 2025

Should the US really send $ 50 million. In condoms to Gaza?

There is no publicly available evidence of plans for millions of taxpayers’ dollars to be spent on financing condoms in Gaza, and an official in the State State did not respond to a proof request from Reuters News Agency.

However, there is a lot of evidence that seems to reject Trump’s claim.

In a statement Wednesday Detailed International Medical Corps (IMC), an organization that received us money to provide medical treatment in Gaza, its work in the enclave. It said: “No US government financing was used to acquire or distribute condoms nor provide family planning services.”

Its statement added that the IMC has received more than $ 68 million. From USAID since October 7, 2023, which has been used to operate two major field hospitals in Gaza, including for surgical care, malnutrition and emergency mothers and newborn care.

No publicly available reports from DOGE or OMB reflect a plan to spend $ 100 million. At IMC’s operations in Gaza.

Reports for fiscal year 2007 to 2023 on contraception and condoms sent by USAID to the rest of the world also do not show any registration of condoms sent to Gaza.

A former Deputy Assistant Defense Secretary of the Middle East, Dana Stroul, said in an X post on Wednesday that USAID did not spend money on Gaza in the 2023 financial year.

A USAID report in April shows that the United States delivered $ 60.8 million. In birth control and condoms to four regions – the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean – in the previous financial year.

The Middle East received only $ 45,681, while Africa received more than $ 54 million, or 89 percent, of the contraceptives in the 2023 financial year.

The report added that $ 45,681 was made exclusively to Jordan and included oral birth control and injectable contraception but did not include condoms.

USID reports also show deliveries to the Middle East in the financial year 2019, 2013, 2012, 2009, 2008 and 2007, of which no one mentions any deliveries to Gaza.

During the Trump administration, USAID delivered $ 1.1 million. To the Middle East in the financial year 2019. All raw materials went to Yemen, including male and female condoms and several types of birth control.

Did Trump think of another gaza?

The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) finances organizations around the world that carry out health -related projects, including reproductive health.

Could it be that Trump and his administration referred to another Gaza? After all, there is more than a dozen places in the world named Gaza, including two communities in the United States.

For the moment, why Trump made the claim and what evidence he has is unknown.

But it is interesting to note that according to the HHS Grants database, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation in Mozambique has received more than $ 83 million. In financing since 2021.

The money was awarded to reproductive health projects in two of the country’s provinces: Inhale and Gaza.

This funding is expected to continue until September 2026 according to the grant details.

It is unclear whether Mozambique has lost funding because of some confusion over its Gaza province.