U.S. threat to Palestinian, Pakistan aid

U.S. President Donald Trump has pledged to withhold aid payments to the West Bank and Gaza as well as foreign assistance to Pakistan.
The U.S. had planned $890 million in aid to Palestinians in 2018


$25,795.6 million
Planned foreign aid in 2018 – about 1% of U.S. federal budget

In heightened tensions between Washington and Islamabad, Trump administration is considering withholding $255m in aid to Pakistan over its failure to confront terrorism

U.S. to also cut $370 million of funding to UN for Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan, Syria and Lebanon


Planned recipients of U.S. foreign assistance (2018)
Areas of Ukraine and Georgia occupied by Russia

Ukraine $203.8m
Syria $191.5m
Egypt $1.38bn
Afghanistan $728.8m
Georgia $34.1m
Iraq $347.9m
Saudi Arabia $10,000
Pakistan $344.6m
Lebanon $103.8m
Israel $3.1bn
West Bank, Gaza $520m
Jordan $1.0bn


Abkhazia
South Ossetia
Crimea 

West Bank
Gaza


Sources: U.S. State Department, ForeignAssistance.gov 
Picture: Associated Press 
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