“Most of the PA’s aid doesn’t come from the State Department. It comes from the CIA. Last I heard, they haven’t changed their policy on the PA,” a member of Fatah told MEE.

Tahani Mustafa, the International Crisis Group's senior Palestine analyst, told MEE it can be difficult to tally just how many American dollars are flowing to the PA’s security services because they are covertly funded by US intelligence, whose funding is likely not impacted by the aid freeze.

“State Department and Department of Defence funding are not the whole part of the PA security services funding,” Mustafa said.

“In fact, they are less than those that will have a critical impact on national security, that being funding from the CIA.”