(Reuters) Sue Pleming - The U.S. will continue providing humanitarian aid to the Palestinian people but Washington will not give any financial help to a Hamas-led government, David Welch, the assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs, told Congress Thursday. "We have not, do not, and will not provide assistance to Hamas - in government or out of government," he said. Rep. Tom Lantos (D-CA), a survivor of the Holocaust, said he was sickened by contacts between Hamas and countries such as Russia and Turkey. "We should make clear that we strongly oppose meeting with Hamas," said Lantos. "It is sickening hypocrisy." "The blood of dozens of Americans and hundreds of Israeli men, women, and children is on those hands," he said.
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