White House Denies Trump’s Claims U.S. ‘Helped Fund’ Hamas Attack On Israel

Topline

A Biden Administration official denied a baseless claim espoused by GOP lawmakers and former President Donald Trump that “American taxpayer dollars helped fund Palestinian militant group Hamas’ deadly attack on Israel Saturday morning, which Trump claimed “many reports are saying came from the Biden Administration,” though no evidence supports any claim U.S. funding went to Hamas.

Key Facts

Trump did not specify how the Biden Administration supported Hamas—and no evidence supports the claim that U.S. taxpayer money went to Hamas—though he might have been alluding to Biden re-starting humanitarian aid to Palestine, including $235 million in April 2021 primarily in aid to Palestinian refugees, after Trump canceled the assistance program three years earlier (the U.S. also has funded up to $100 million for a hospital network in East Jerusalem).