On Tuesday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced a $112 million assistance package to Palestinians, bringing the total amount of aid from the Biden administration to the region plagued by terrorist organizations like Hamas to $360 million.
“Meeting earlier in the day with Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, Blinken announced that the administration will notify Congress of its intention to provide $75 million in additional development and economic aid,” Fox News reported. “In addition, it will fund disaster assistance in Gaza to the tune of $5.5 million, and an additional $32 million to the controversial U.N. Palestinian refugee agency’s (UNRWA) emergency humanitarian appeal.”
President Abbas, who Blinken met with, was a leader of a terrorist organization when he was elected and is a holocaust denier who has repeatedly claimed that “the Zionist movement had ties with the Nazis.”
“This new assistance comes on top of significant support the United States has recently committed and resumed to the Palestinian Authority, the Palestinians, to different agencies and groups,” Blinken said. “In total, we are in the process of providing more than $360 million in urgent support for the Palestinian people.”
Blinken claimed that the goal was to rebuild “the relationship with the Palestinian Authority and Palestinian people” and that no aid would go to Palestinian terrorist organizations despite the Palestinian Authority being led by Abbas.
“As I told the president, I’m here to underscore the commitment of the United States to rebuilding the relationship with the Palestinian Authority and the Palestinian people, a relationship built on mutual respect and also a shared conviction that Palestinians and Israelis alike deserve equal measures of security, freedom, opportunity and dignity,” Blinken said at a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Fox News added, “Blinken met with both Palestinian and Israeli officials after an 11-day conflict that began when Hamas, a terror group that does not recognize Israel’s right to exist, launched rockets at Israel – which in turn responded with airstrikes.”
