Sen. Tom Cotton says $1 billion in US aid diverted to Hamas terrorists

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 October 17, 2024

While President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have expressed public support for Israel in the ongoing war between the Jewish nation and Hamas terrorists, they're also apparently aiding the bad guys. 

According to Fox News, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) recently sounded the alarm on the sheer amount of taxpayer money that has been diverted to Hamas terrorists as the war rages on.

Cotton wrote a letter to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in which he disclosed that some $1 billion in U.S. taxpayer funds have ended up in the hands of Hamas terrorists.

In his letter, the Arkansas senator took aim at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which reportedly has ties to Hamas terrorists in Gaza, and has been responsible for valuable aid making it into terrorists' hands.

What did he say?

Cotton not only highlighted the massive amount of aid headed to Hamas terrorists through Gaza, but also demanded that all aid shipments be stopped immediately and said UNRWA be cut off.

According to a bombshell report last month, Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Danny Danon suggested that UNRWA had completely been taken over by Hamas terrorists, thus guaranteeing any U.S. aid going to the agency would end up in Hamas' supply bunkers.

Cotton said in his letter that he has "grave concerns" regarding the amount of U.S. humanitarian aid that has ended up in the wrong hands.

"As I predicted would happen from the outset, credible reporting indicates that Hamas terrorists have diverted this aid; indisputable evidence demonstrates that the aid was always at high risk of diversion," Cotton wrote.

He added, "In all likelihood, the Biden-Harris administration has prolonged the Gaza war, allowed aid to flow to Israel’s enemies, and misused taxpayer funds."

Not surprisingly, the UNRWA Washington Office essentially shot down Cotton's claims, saying that some of the information in his letter was riddled with errors.

UNRWA responds

"We wish the Senator’s office would have reached out to us as the letter contains numerous errors, the sum of which renders it largely a series of mismatched facts and unsubstantiated allegations - particularly its assertion that providing desperate people with food, medicine and shelter somehow prolongs a war."

The organization added, "First, UNRWA is not a partner with USAID, not before or after October 7, which makes even the letter’s addressee, USAID Administrator Power, the wrong person to whom to write if the Senator’s concerns are with UNRWA."

UNRWA Washington Office Director William Deere added, "The only credible reporting on possible aid diversion by Hamas in Gaza comes from the recent U.S. Special Envoy for Middle Eastern Humanitarian Affairs, Ambassador David Satterfield, who stated, ‘No Israeli official has come to me, come to the administration, with specific evidence of diversion or theft of assistance delivered by the U.N.’"

Only time will tell how much additional aid will end up in terrorists' hands.

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