The Trump administration has threatened to withhold nearly $2 billion in federal funding for natural disaster response to cities and states that boycott Israeli companies over its war with Hamas, according to a report.
The Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency announced in grant notices sent to states late last week that they will have to pledge not to shutter contracts with Israeli companies to receive money to cover expenses associated with responding to hurricanes, fires, and floods.
The stipulations noted in the documents require states and cities to certify that they will not rescind “commercial relations specifically with Israeli companies” in light of the casualty-heavy war that has created dire humanitarian conditions in the Gaza Strip, Reuters reported Monday afternoon.
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