USAID is "the principal U.S. agency to extend assistance to countries recovering from disaster, trying to escape poverty, and engaging in democratic reforms." Its funding for the West Bank and Gaza between 1993 and 2004 totalled approximately $1.3 billion.

USAID has taken consistent measures to avoid the abuse of humanitarian funding for politicized objectives and its "Certification Regarding Terrorist Financing" lists a range of commitments required from NGOs that operate in the West Bank and Gaza. NGOs funded by USAID include ANERA and Faten.

More information:

• The Failure of U.S. Aid in Egypt, David Rieff, The New Republic, February 4, 2011

• Walter Pincus, "USAID will screen all personnel at NGOs it supports for Terrorist links", MSNBC.om, August 23, 2007
  

   

• USAID found to be supporting the biased anti-Israeli political activities of ANERA, and funding its publications that erase the context of terrorism and promote the Palestinian narrative (Vol. 4 No. 6) February 26, 2006.
• NGO Monitor Report on USAID - February 15, 2005
• USAID InfoFile