Gaza, experiencing “real hunger,” says Donald Trump

There is a “real hunger in Gaza,” said Donald Trump, after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted that there was no such thing.

Asked if he agrees with Netanyahu that this is a “bold lie” to say that Israel nourishes the hunger in Gaza, the US president replied: “I don’t know … These children look very hungry … These are a real hunger.”

Speaking during a meeting with the United Kingdom Prime Minister Kyar Starmer in Scotland, Trump said, “No one did anything great there. The whole place is a mess … I told Israel that maybe they should do it differently.”

His comments came after the UN Humanitarian Chief said he needed “huge quantities” of food to get rid of hunger.

Tom Fletcher told the BBC that he welcomed Israel’s measures over the weekend to allow more aid in gas in the form of airlines and military breaks to allow food convoys to reach people.

But he said that what has been delivered so far is just a “drop in the ocean” of what is necessary.

“This is the beginning, but the next few days are really done or broken. We have to deliver a much, much larger scale. We need huge amounts of help, much faster,” he told the BBC Radio 4 Today program.

Israel said 120 truck loads were collected from crossings on Sunday during the first daily 10-hour “tactical pause” in military operations and that Jordan and the United Arab Emirates have 28 packs of food.

Hours after Mr. Fletcher spoke, the health ministry of the Hamas territory said that another 14 people had been killed in the last 24 hours as a result of malnutrition.

This brought the total number of deaths related to the war after the war, began in October 2023 to 147, including 88 children, according to the ministry.

Israel, who controls the entry of all supplies to Gaza, has denied having a hunger in the gas and rejected the accusations that he was responsible for food shortages.

On Sunday, Israeli military began actions that it is said to improve the “humanitarian response” in Gaza and denied the “false statement of intentional starvation”.

Israel has announced that there will be a “local tactical pause” in three areas of gas for 10 hours a day, as well as the creation of “certain safe routes” for convoys for help.

The military also allowed drops for help by foreign countries to resume, despite humanitarian agencies, which warn that the method is ineffective and dangerous.

The Israeli military body COGAT, which coordinates the entry of assistance in Gaza, said that over 120 truck loads were collected from the UN intersections and other international organizations on Sunday and that hundreds of truck loads were expected to be collected.

Mr. Fletcher said the UN had collected less than 100 truck cargo during this time and noted that 600 to 700 loads entered the Gaza on average every day during the termination of fire between Israel and Hamas earlier this year.

Asked to respond to Israel’s criticism of UN agencies for not collecting help from intersections, he said: “We will not leave pallets if we can. But in order to get to it, our drivers are facing bureaucratic restrictions, they face huge security restrictions.”

He also said that most of the UN food trucks were looted after entering Gaza on Sunday.

“Most of these trucks … were hit by desperate individual civilians, starving. The flour was removed from these trucks and very, very dangerous for our drivers.”

G -n Fletcher also warned that UN teams on Earth believe that the pauses of Israeli military would last only a week or more, which he said would be “obviously insufficient when we see this cruelty of the 21st century before our eyes.”

“We need an extended delivery period – weeks, months – to accumulate, stop this fasting and build stocks again. In the end, we need to end the fire. Pauses are a good step in the right direction, but stopping the conflict is the key.”

Netanyahu on Sunday of Diva claims that Israel deliberately starving civilians in Gaza, which would be a war crime.

“What a bold lie. There is no hunger policy in Gaza and there is no hunger in gas.” he said.

“We enable humanitarian aid throughout the duration of the war to enter the gas. Otherwise there will be no Gazani. And what has interfered with the supply of humanitarian aid is a force, Hamas. Again, the conversion of the truth,” he added.

Netanyahu said that the humanitarian pauses and corridors of the Israeli military mean that the UN has left no excuses for not collecting and distributing all the aid from the crossings.

“Stop lying. Stop finding excuses. Do what you need to do.”

On Monday night, Netanyahu’s office said Israel will work with help groups, US and European nations to provide “large quantities of humanitarian aid in Gaza.

A statement said that “Gaza’s situation is difficult”, but that Hamas “took advantage of trying to nourish the perception of a humanitarian crisis” by releasing “unverified numbers” and “circulating images that are carefully stage or manipulated.”

The Israeli government does not allow international news organizations, including the BBC, in Gaza to report freely on the situation there.

On Sunday, the World Health Organization warned that malnutrition was “a dangerous trajectory in the Gaza Strip, marked by a jump in death in July.”

Of the 74 deaths related to Gaza malnutrition in 2025, 63 occurred this month, including 24 children under five and one child over five, the UN agency said.

“Most of these people have been declared dead upon arrival in healthcare facilities or died shortly after, their bodies show clear signs of heavy loser,” she adds.

The WHO said the crisis was “completely prevented” and condemned what he calls “deliberate blocking and delaying large -scale foods, health and humanitarian aid.”

Hamas denied stealing help, and on Sunday, the New York Times quoted senior Israeli military officials that the military had never found proof that the armed group had systematically stolen the UN help. The Reuters Agency also announced last week that US government analysis has not found evidence of a systematic Hamas theft by US -funded help.

On Monday, sources of local hospitals said Israeli attacks in Gaza killed over 30 people, including seekers.

The Israeli military launched a campaign in Gaza in response to an attack led by Hamas against southern Israel on October 7, 2023, which killed about 1,200 people and 251 others were hostage.

At least 59,821 people have been killed in Gaza since then, according to the health ministry in the territory.