An advisor to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says the Obama administration’s last minute $221 million handout to Palestine has already reached the West Bank and Gaza. Sott.net reports: The much-discussed $221 million transfer to Palestine authorized by Barack Obama just hours before Trump was sworn into the presidency has already reached West Bank and Gaza, an advisor to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has claimed. “We have already received the last sum assigned by Obama’s administration. They have transferred this money,” Husam Zomlot, strategic affairs advisor to the Palestine president, told RIA Novosti in an interview on Thursday. When asked to clarify whether he was speaking about the $221 million payment, the Palestinian official answered in the affirmative. The decision was made in Washington “several weeks ago,” he added. The transfer of the money coming from the US Agency for International Development (USAID) has been widely discussed since the last-minute announcement last Friday, when then-US Secretary of State John Kerry formally notified Congress of the decision. Although Congress had initially approved the funding, at least two Republican lawmakers had placed it on hold, which isn’t legally binding but generally respected. There have been reports the new State Department was reviewing the [...]
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