After leaving Afghanistan in shambles, Joe Biden has vowed to give the Taliban-controlled country $308 million in aid.
The Daily Caller reported, National Security Council spokeswoman Emily Horne clarified in a statement that the money “will directly flow through independent humanitarian organizations,” to avoid assisting the Taliban. The aid aims to provide assistance for healthcare, hygiene, hunger, and cold weather, according to the White House.
Biden’s aid plan will also provide Afghanistan with an additional 1 million COVID-19 vaccine doses.
In September reports from UNICEF surfaced claiming that more than 1 million Afghan children are at risk of starving after the Taliban take over in August.
Most western nations have frozen direct aid to Afghanistan hoping to leverage the Taliban into protecting individual rights, particularly the rights of women.
Instead of a “safe and orderly” withdrawal, the United States exited Afghanistan with a trail of chaos and bodies.
13 U.S. service members were tragically killed at the Kabul airport, along with at least 90 Afghan citizens who were in proximity to the ISIS-K suicide bombers at the time of detonation.
Following the airstrike attack, a drone strike was carried out on a compound allegedly housing ISIS-K terrorists. As it would later turn out, this compound was a family home. Inside were 10 civilians – 7 of whom were children under the age of 10 years old. All deceased after the strike.
The Taliban were also able to hunt down any Afghan citizen who had allied with the former government, NATO or the United States using biometric databases left behind by the Biden Administration. Reports indicate that these individuals were often executed.