Judging by television, the children in the Gaza Strip are very hungry, declared the President of the United States, Donald Trump, when the press asked him about the veracity of the statements of the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, that there is no famine in the enclave.
“I don’t know. I mean, based on television, I would say that particularly not [Netanyahu’s statements are true], because the children seem to be very hungry,” he said at a joint press conference with the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Keir Starmer, in Scotland.
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“We are donating a lot of money and a lot of food and other nations announced that they are stepping up their support,” he added.
In this regard, the president indicated that the residents of the Gaza Strip should receive “food and security right now.”
“Nobody even thanked us”
When asked about his position regarding ways to resolve the conflict, Trump stated: “Well, I’m not going to take a position. […] I’m looking to feed people right now. For me, that’s the number one position because there are a lot of hungry people.”
At the same time, the head of state condemned that they have not thanked his country for the aid provided. “You know, the United States recently gave, just a couple of weeks ago, 60 million dollars. It’s a lot of money. […] Nobody even thanked us,” he denounced. “Someone should say thank you,” he concluded.
Critical Situation
Humanitarian organizations and international news agencies
warned last week that the situation in the Gaza Strip is dramatic.
According to the UN World Food Programme, a third of the 2.1 million inhabitants of the Gaza Strip
“haven’t eaten for days”, while 470,000 people are in a state similar to famine and 90,000 women and children need urgent treatment.
The UN Secretary-General, António Guterres,
described on Friday the situation in Gaza as “a moral crisis that challenges global conscience”. “
Children say they want to go to heaven because, at least, they say,
there is food there“, he stated.
