According to UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency) tens of billions of dollars (one-third from US taxpayers, the rest mostly from Canada and European countries) have been spent over the last 50 years providing “Palestinian refugees” and their descendents. An estimated half million people 60 years ago, that number is now over four million and increasing daily.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/04/scandal_the_welfare_state_of_p.html