Speaker Mike Johnson ushered through a bill with $26 billion in aid for Israel and Gaza (Photographer: Haiyun Jiang/Bloomberg via Getty Images | Photo by JACQUELYN MARTIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
The vote comes as tensions in the Middle East escalate dramatically, particularly between Israel and Iran as Israel fights a war on the Palestinian terror group Hamas.
Israel carried out limited strikes against Iran on Friday in retaliation for a barrage of airstrikes Tehran fired on Israel, the first such direct attack from the Islamic fundamentalist government. No large-scale damage or casualties were reported in either incident.
The issue of Israel has also been a divisive one for Democrats, as a growing faction of left-wing lawmakers criticize Israel's invasion in response to Hamas' Oct. 7 attack.
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Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., spoke out against the Israel funding bill on Saturday (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
"The legislation also contains 400 million for FEMA, which has nothing to do with supporting Israel, and over $9 billion for humanitarian aid in…Gaza and the West Bank."
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Clyde cited a Heritage Foundation report that said Hamas and other terror groups controlled the flow of all international humanitarian aid operating in Gaza.
"It is therefore highly likely U.S. taxpayer-funded humanitarian aid to Gaza, including some of the aid in this bill, will again be diverted to support further Hamas attacks against Israel," he said.
Elizabeth Elkind is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital leading coverage of the House of Representatives. Previous digital bylines seen at Daily Mail and CBS News.
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