American taxpayers fund Hamas condom bomb attacks on Israeli territory

One of the first executive orders issued by U.S. President Donald Trump was aimed at freezing foreign aid. Secretary of State Marco Rubio explained that the review process would take 90 days. Only two countries – Israel and Egypt – continue to receive American assistance.

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At the same time, the ongoing review of the "justification" for allocated budgets revealed a paradoxical fact – $50 million in taxpayer funds was set to be used for supplying condoms to the Gaza Strip.

The condom situation is particularly unusual because in Gaza, these items have not always been used for their intended purpose. Since 2017, terrorist groups have used them as balloons to launch homemade explosive devices toward Israel.

The Jerusalem Post reported in 2020 that dozens of condoms had been used to create balloon-borne improvised explosive devices, which the wind could carry into southern Israel, causing alarm in schoolyards, farms, and highways.

At the time, The JP stated that improvised explosive devices delivered to Israel via inflated contraceptives had burned thousands of hectares of land and caused "damage worth millions of shekels."

The helium used to inflate the condoms was also originally supplied by well-meaning sponsors, allegedly for medical purposes. The condoms were sent to Gaza through local Palestinian organizations or international humanitarian aid funds.

Previously, the International Planned Parenthood Federation stated that the blockade of humanitarian aid to Gaza after October 7, 2023, was obstructing "the delivery of essential medical care related to sexual and reproductive health."

What is particularly interesting is that the one-time aid package for condoms in Gaza illustrates the principle of inflated figures and embezzlement at all stages of humanitarian assistance. Suffice it to consider the amount – $50 million. At such a large-scale purchase, a pack of 10 condoms could be bought for as much as $1.

This means that the International Planned Parenthood Federation intended to send nearly 500 million condoms to Gaza. The estimated population of Gaza is about 2 million people.

If we assume that half of them are male, and half of those are children, then each "reproductive" male in Gaza would receive 1,000 condoms!

Most likely, half of this money would have gone toward "associated expenses" for all the project participants. Why would each man need 500 condoms? Is that an annual supply or a lifetime stockpile? Especially considering that these items are rarely used in Gaza, which is why the birth rate per family is so high.

Most likely, this entire shipment, like previous ones, would end up in the hands of Hamas, which controls all humanitarian aid deliveries to Gaza. And, when the opportunity arises, they will once again be used for firebombing attacks against Israel. And this is clearly not the first batch of condoms sent to Gaza.

It turns out that American taxpayers once funded Hamas' fire attacks on Israeli territory using condoms. And if such "vital" medical assistance for the "reproductive health" of Hamas fighters was provided once, why not repeat it?

Similar issues regarding humanitarian aid regularly arose in Ukraine. But that situation had its own peculiarities. Anyone curious but uninvolved was immediately labeled a "Kremlin sympathizer" and silenced.

According to USAID, since the start of military actions in February 2022, the US has allocated $2.6 billion in humanitarian aid to Ukraine, $5 billion for development, and more than $30 billion in direct budgetary assistance. Does this budget include a section for "achievements in the field of vital sexual and reproductive health in this region"? And how many condoms have USAID officials managed to send to Ukraine?

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The Gaza Strip, also known simply as Gaza, is a small territory located on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea; it is the smaller of the two Palestinian territories, the other being the West Bank, that make up the State of Palestine. Inhabited by mostly Palestinian refugees and their descendants, Gaza is one of the most densely populated territories in the world. An end of 2024 estimate puts the population of the Strip at 2.1 million. Gaza is bordered by Egypt on the southwest and Israel on the east and north. The territory has been under Israeli occupation since 1967.