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Commentary: US tax dollars should be funding humanitarian relief work in Gaza, not destroying it

An Israeli army tank rolls in southern Israel along the border with the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024, amid ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas.

Over the past five decades, American taxpayers have to finance hundreds of projects in humanitarian relief and development in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, all under the banner of “.” But the Biden administration is currently providing the weaponry that is killing the very people the government set out to help and is failing to protect the life-giving projects that American money created. In addition, the administration to the United Nations Relief and Works, as 2 million Palestinians there face , and .

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