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U.S. Senator Releases Palestinian Aid
(Times of Israel) Jacob Magid - Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), the ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, initially held up $75 million in humanitarian assistance that the Biden administration earmarked for the Palestinians last March, due to the Palestinian Authority's payments to prisoners who had carried out attacks against Israelis. In the months that followed, he released $55 million of that aid in two separate approvals. The senator agreed to release the last $20 million in aid, "as long as it is reprogrammed to be used for food aid, and will not be in the hands of terrorists." Had the aid not been spent by the end of September, it would have expired.