The Palestinian Authority has lost U.S. funding for its security forces following President Donald Trump’s Inauguration Day executive order that froze all foreign assistance.
Brig. Gen. Anwar Rajab, a spokesman for the security forces, said the U.S. was considered a “big donor to the PA projects” that included security training for the forces, The Washington Post reported Wednesday.
The U.S. Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs provided approximately $1.1 billion in civilian security and justice assistance to support the Palestinian Authority’s security forces since 2007, the State Department, which oversees the bureau, said last year, according to the Post.
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