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Fox News Host Loses it Over $50M Gaza ‘Condom Drop’ Claim

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“Are we airdropping condoms? Is there a guy from the Red Cross stepping over rubble, handing out rubbers? And is safe sex really the top priority of Palestinians right now?” Jesse Watters asked.

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Fox News host Jesse Watters got all hot and bothered over an eyebrow-raising claim by White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt that the Biden administration spent $50 million to provide condoms to the people of Gaza.

“There was about to be 50 million taxpayer dollars that went out the door to fund condoms in Gaza,” Leavitt said earlier Tuesday during her first press briefing.

On the Jesse Watters Primetime show, the host expressed his own disbelief—but that didn’t stop him running with it.

“Condoms cost a couple of pennies when you buy them in bulk. At least according to heartthrob Stephen Miller,” he said. “Are we airdropping condoms? Is there a guy from the Red Cross stepping over rubble, handing out rubbers? And is safe sex really the top priority of Palestinians right now?”

Watters suggested that Hamas probably doesn’t use condoms and instead makes “condom bombs” that they inflate, strap explosives to, and float to Israel. “It’s a dual-use technology, he said, adding, “Looks like a Hamas birthday party.”

Watters wasn’t the only one that accepted Leavitt’s claim that $50 million worth of condoms had been sent to Gaza, with even First Buddy Elon Musk weighing in.

“Tip of the iceberg,” he wrote in an X post attached to a video of Leavitt’s press briefing. He added: “My guess is that a lot of that money ended up in the pockets Hamas, not actually condoms.”

Meanwhile, Andrew Miller, the former deputy assistant secretary for Israeli-Palestinian affairs under Biden’s administration, refuted the claim, calling it “outlandish.”

“It’s possible that $50 million is put aside for sexual health or something of that nature, which would include gynecology and many other services, but definitely not condoms alone,” he told The Times of Israel.

The paper reported that the U.S. Agency for International Development’s spending on sexual health and contraceptives amounted to $60 million globally in the fiscal year of 2023—not just in Gaza.