Do they have a $ 50 million in Gaza Condoms now that Trump claims? | Israel-Palestine News of Conflict

The President of the United States Donald Trump boasted that his administration stopped $ 50 million in condoms to make bombs to be sent to Gaza.

Trump has not provided any evidence for his claims – that the condoms were sent to Gaza or that Hamas used the contraceptives to make bombs – and left many people asking what the US president talks about.

But there may be an explanation. Bizarre.

Here’s what you need to know about Trump’s claim that the US has been sent to Hamas’s condoms until he stopped the course:

What exactly happened to Trump?

Trump has made a contraceptive claim as he enumerated the achievements of his administration from coming to duty.

“We identified and stopped $ 50 million sent to Gaza to buy Hamas condoms,” Trump said on Wednesday. “They used them as a method of making bombs. What do you say?”

Karoline Leavitt, a white house secretary, filed a similar request on Tuesday during her debut briefing. She stated that the Department of Efficiency of the Government (Doge) and the Budget and Budget Office (OMB) “found that there would be $ 50 million in taxpayers who went out to the door to finance condom in Gaza.”

She called her aid “rude loss of taxpayer’s money.”

Jesse Watters, hosted by a conservative talk show at Fox News, said Hamas uses non -existent American shipments to make “bomb bombs”, floating balloons with explosives in Israel. Did he share any evidence that supports that bomb-adult claim? Not.

Why did the White House asking for condoms?

Trump seems to have made a charge to frame Gaza as an example of wasteful spending aside to help in the US. His administration justified the suspension of almost all sides of help, emphasizing examples of “terrible financing”, such as contraception and reproductive health care program.

The administration says that it is a review to ensure that dozens of one billion dollars of the US side help with Trump’s foreign policy “America First” and not losing taxpayers’ money.

The US are by far the biggest donor to help globally. In the Fiscal Year 2023, he paid $ 72 billion in aid around the world, from women’s health in conflicts to access to clean water, HIV/AIDS treatments, energy security and anti -corruption work.

Shortly after returning to his duties to another term on January 20, Trump ordered the freezing of 90 days on a foreign assistance to ensure that help in accordance with his administration policies, which opposes abortion programs, real transgender rights and diversity.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in memory that now they are freezing almost all payments, except for ambulance in food and military assistance to Egypt and Israel.

How many condoms can you buy with $ 50 million?

International Refugee President Jeremy Konyndyk, who has monitored the US International Development Agency (USAIDs) Portfelj Assistance to Assistance to President Joe Biden’s administration, rejected Trump’s and Leavitt’s claims as unrealistic.

“USAID acquires condoms for about $ 0.05 a piece,” wrote on Wednesday at X. “$ 50 million would be a billion condom. What is happening here is not a billion condom for gauze. What happens is that the doge numbers I can’t read budget tables. “

So look – the “Condomi of Gaza” thing.

USAID procures condoms for about $ 0.05 a piece.

$ 50 million would be a billion condom.

What goes here is not a billions of condoms for gauze.

What happens is that the doge numbers obviously cannot read budget tables.

– Jeremy Konyndyk is in Jeremykonyndyk.bsky.Social (@jeremykonyndyk) 29 January 2025

Did they really send $ 50 million in Gaza Condoms now?

There is no public evidence of plans for millions of dollars of taxpayers who will be spent on the financing of condoms in Gaza, and the state official did not respond to a request for evidence from the Reuters news agency.

However, there seems to be a lot of evidence that rejects Trump’s claim.

In a Wednesday’s statement, International Medical Corps (IMC), an organization that received us money to provide medical care in Gaza, described in detail his work in the enclave. It said: “No financing of the US government has been used to procure or distribute condom, nor providing family planning services.”

His statement added that IMC received more than $ 68 million from USAIDs from October 7, 2023, which was used to manage two large field fields in Gaza, including for surgical care, treatment of malnutrition and urgent care of mothers and newborns.

Doge or OMB publicly available reports do not reflect a $ 100 million consumption plan for IMC Gazi.

Reports for the Fiscal Year 2007 to 2023 on contraceptives and condoms delivered by USAID to the rest of the world also show no records of condoms shipped to Gaza.

Former Deputy Assistant Minister of Defense for the Middle East, Dana Stroul, said on Wednesday that USAID was in the fiscal year 2023 did not spend money on Gaza.

The USAID report in April shows that the US has submitted $ 60.8 million contraceptives and condoms in four regions – the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean – in the previous fiscal year.

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

The report added that $ 45,681 was fully made in Jordan and included oral contraceptive and injection contraceptives, but did not include condoms.

The USAID reports also show delivery to the Middle East in the Fiscal Years 2019, 2013, 2012, 2009, 2008 and 2007, none of which mentions deliveries in Gaza.

According to Trump’s administration, USAID delivered $ 1.1 million to the Middle East in Fiscal 2019 in 2019. All goods went to Yemen, including male and female condoms and several types of contraceptives.

Did Trump think about another gauze?

The US Ministry of Health and Human Services (HHS) is funded by organizations around the world that implementing health related projects, including reproductive health.

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

For now, why Trump has made a statement and which evidence he has is unknown.

However, it is interesting to note that according to the database of HHS Grants, the Pediatric Pomning Foundation of Elizabeth Glaser in Mozambique received more than $ 83 million funding from 2021.

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

This funding is expected to continue until September 2026, according to Grant data.

It is unclear whether Mozambique lost the funds because of any confusion over the gauze province.