Trump Says Top Priority Now in Gaza Is Getting People More Food

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โ€˜Some of those kids areโ€”thatโ€™s real starvation stuff,โ€™ the president says.

President Donald Trump said on Monday that the No. 1 priority in Gaza is getting people fed amid the nearly two-year Hamasโ€“Israel conflict.

Trump, speaking alongside British Prime Minister Keir Starmer at his golf resort in Scotland, told reporters that the United States had provided $60 million for humanitarian aid and that other nations would have to step up.

โ€œWeโ€™re giving a lot of money and a lot of food, and other nations are now stepping up,โ€ Trump said, referring to U.S. aid efforts in Gaza. โ€œItโ€™s a mess. They have to get food and safety right now.โ€

Trump made note of images and footage of what appear to be starving children in Gaza.

โ€œBased on television … those children look very hungry,โ€ he said.

Trump later told reporters, โ€œSome of those kids areโ€”thatโ€™s real starvation stuff.โ€

Starmer agreed with the president, telling reporters on Monday: โ€œItโ€™s a humanitarian crisis, right? Itโ€™s an absolute catastrophe. … I think people in Britain are revolted at seeing what theyโ€™re seeing on their screen.โ€

Trumpโ€™s remarks came during a meeting with Starmer, following several European countriesโ€™ recent calls for an end to the war. The United Kingdom, France, and Germany released a joint statement on July 25 that said Israel and Hamas, a terrorist organization, should โ€œbring an end to the conflict by reaching an immediate cease-fireโ€ and that more food aid should be brought in.

Israel carried out an air drop and announced a series of measures over the weekend to improve access for aid, including daily humanitarian pauses in three areas of Gaza and new safe corridors for convoys.

โ€œIsrael is presented as though we are applying a campaign of starvation in Gaza. What a bald-faced lie. There is no policy of starvation in Gaza, and there is no starvation in Gaza,โ€ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday, denying claims of famine or mass starvation.

During the press event, Trump criticized Hamas for not agreeing to release more hostages, living or dead, and indicated he had told Netanyahu that Israelโ€™s approach would likely have to change.

โ€œI told Bibi that you have to maybe do it a different way,โ€ Trump said, echoing similar comments made on Sunday and using a nickname for Netanyahu.

By Jack Phillips

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