Posted on 05/09/2016 3:34:21 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
The United States on Monday announced a $50 million aid program for Gaza, reports The Associated Press (AP).
American officials quoted by the news agency said that the money will be used over five years to provide basic humanitarian assistance and create jobs in the coastal enclave.
The money will be distributed by the U.S Agency for International Development in partnership with Catholic Relief Services.
The U.S. Consul General in Jerusalem, Donald A. Blume, said the effort is meant to address "the dire needs that are obvious in Gaza", according to the AP report.
Gaza's economy has sharply declined since Hamas took over the coastal territory from its longtime rival Fatah nearly a decade ago. Unemployment there is estimated to be over 40 percent.
In addition, homes and infrastructure in Gaza sustained damages during the 2014 war between Israel and Hamas.
UNRWA has estimated in the past that the homes of more than 96,000 Gazans were destroyed or damaged during the conflict. Despite the Palestinians’ blaming of Israel, the high level of destruction is due to the fact that Hamas heavily entrenched its terrorist network in the civilian infrastructure of Gaza.
Hamas has warned that the coastal territory could become a breeding ground for extremism unless promised reconstruction is accelerated.
The Palestinian Authority’s (PA) prime minister Rami Hamdallah recently said that only 40 percent of the money pledged to reconstruct Gaza after the 2014 war was delivered....
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how can a government like what we have right now be worth defending?
The answer is in the question. It has been this way for a long time.
They’re more homicidal, and their accents aren’t as cute, and they aren’t US citizens...yet.
Stop the da*mn handouts. PUT AMERICA AND AMERICANS FIRST!
Americans are hurting because of this insanity!
Any aid needs to be with the implementation of a couple soup kitchens - where in order to get fed, one must say, “Praise Jesus for His Love”......
Ithought congress held the power of the purse
Why are these animal pali’s getting a penny?
How about tactical nukes instead as that is what they deserve.
And some people think it’s a big deal that the NY Times did a story on when the Iran negotiations really started.
Our government has bought the Catholic Church. You noticed?
What does America gain by giving this “aid”? Peace? What a bad joke.
If you'd like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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How many tunnels can you reinforce eith $35 million in aid? $50 million minus Hamas leader's commissions. Maybe they get less than that. Related threads
Bump. Plus 500m for schools where they remove Israel from maps of Israel.
50 million?
That’s a lot of katushahs.
Amen. At the very least, don’t handout goodies to America’s sworn enemies.
That’s why we’re over 20 TRILLION in debt..pouring money down sh*thole countries that will never change and who hate us!
Donald will put a stop to this insanity!!
He’ll try.
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