Trump Said The US Gave $60 Million For Food Aid In Gaza But No One Thanked Him
There is no record of the US$60 million dollars being sent to any organization in Gaza, according to fact-checker Politifact.
US president Donald Trump said no one thanked him after the US sent US$60 million aid for food in Gaza.
On Thursday, July 31, a reported asked Trump if he agreed with fellow Republican politician Marjorie Taylor Greene’s recent statement that genocide is happening in Gaza.
“Oh, it’s terrible what’s occurring there,” Trump said.“People are very hungry.”
He claimed the US had given US$60 million for food in Gaza a few weeks ago “to people that in theory are watching over it fairly closely”.
Trump said he did not see the results of the aid and claimed that “part of the problem is Hamas is taking the money and they’re taking the food.”
“We gave $60 million a couple of weeks ago, nobody said anything about it. Nobody said thank you,” Trump added.
There is no record of the US$60 million dollars being sent to any organization in Gaza or even the controversial US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) on USASpending.gov, a government website that helps track federal spending, according to fact-checker Politifact.
Trump’s comments sparked widespread backlash as the US has sent billions to Israel to fund its genocide in Gaza, which has now killed more than 60,332 people.
People also pointed out that Amir, a young Palestinian boy, had thanked a US contractor at GHF after receiving aid by kissing his hand, but was killed by Israeli forces just moments later.
The IPC, the global hunger monitor, said on Tuesday, July 29, that the “worst-case scenario of famine” is now unfolding across Gaza.
Following Israel announcing a “tactical pause” due to immense pressure, countries such as Jordan, UAE and France have sent food aid airdrops to Gaza, which have been criticized as inefficient and deadly, with Israel just recently allowing only around 160 aid trucks to enter Gaza.
However, international organizations, human rights groups and Palestinians on the ground have said the amount of food aid entering still falls far from short of the 600 trucks needed to feed 2.3 million people.
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