CLAIM: The Trump administration stopped $50 million from being sent to the Gaza Strip to buy condoms for Hamas.

During her first official White House briefing as President Donald Trump’s press secretary, Karoline Leavitt announced that Trump had prevented a “preposterous waste of taxpayer money.” Trump’s team,

Neither the White House nor any federal agency has provided evidence for a plan to spend $50 million on condoms for Gaza.

A separate U.S. program that provides contraceptives internationally spent $60 million worldwide in one year, but Gaza was not among the recipients.

The hostages were released in a staged handover that saw them surrounded by Hamas gunmen and crowds of civilians.

No US government funding was used to procure or distribute condoms,' International Medical Corps says in statement following Trump's claims - Anadolu Ajansı

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke with Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty on Tuesday, emphasizing the importance of close cooperation to ensure Hamas cannot govern the Gaza Strip again.

President Donald Trump said this week that he stopped the United States from sending $50 million “to Gaza to buy condoms for Hamas.” The claims made by Trump and his new press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, were met with an uproar from social media.

Both President Trump and his press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, have claimed that the administration has stopped a plan to spend $50 million on condoms for Gaza as part of the new administration’s reevaluation of federal funding.

By Daniel Dale, Alex Marquardt and Jennifer Hansler, CNN Washington (CNN) — During her first official White House briefing as

More than a year after Hamas attacked southern Israel on 7 October 2023 – killing around 1,200 people and taking another 250 captive – around 85 hostages remain, although Israel believes around a third are dead. A ceasefire deal currently in place ...