The Israeli prime minister’s office has rejected global reporting of the crisis as “fake news”.
US President Donald Trump reportedly shouted at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a phone call after the Israeli leader attempted to downplay reports of starvation in Gaza, NBC News reported on Friday.
Netanyahu has publicly claimed that “there is no starvation” in the Palestinian enclave, which is being blockaded by Israeli military forces, despite multiple claims to the contrary from medical staff in Gaza.
During a recent trip to the UK, Trump pushed back, telling journalists the starvation is real.
According to the outlet, Netanyahu insisted during the call that allegations of widespread hunger in Gaza were fabricated by the militant group Hamas, but Trump interrupted him, raising his voice and stating that his aides had shown him evidence to the contrary.
The conversation was reportedly initiated at Netanyahu’s request, but the exchange ended up being “mostly one-way,” with Trump doing most of the talking, according to one source.
Netanyahu’s office denied the claim, calling it “complete fake news” in a brief statement.
NBC News suggested that Trump has taken a personal interest in the issue due to US support for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), an Israeli-affiliated organization conducting limited relief work in the enclave since May. The foundation has been shunned by the UN, which operates its own aid network in Gaza and has accused Israel of obstructing food deliveries.
This week, a group of UN experts criticized the GHF, calling it “an utterly disturbing example of how humanitarian relief can be exploited for covert military and geopolitical agendas.” They accused the foundation of operating as a “tangle of Israeli intelligence, US contractors and ambiguous non-governmental entities,” rather than a legitimate relief agency. The UN estimates that nearly 1,400 people have been killed in Gaza while searching for food.
Israel is currently preparing for a military operation to occupy Gaza City, marking yet another escalation in the conflict.
It has been zero days since the last jewish trick or lie; it has been that way for a long time. If they are God’s chosen people, then there is no god.
Or more accurately Netanyahu yells “jump” and Trump says “how high”.
If I was in charge of Hamas I would execute the remaing hostages, lay their bodies out in Gaza each with a sign saying “Murdered by Netanyahu”
I suspect Trump and the US establishment waking up to the fact they are getting metaphorically splashed in the blood, spilt by the Israeli criminal state. Time to end all funding and stop any and all weapons shipments to the murderers.
If it was raised among New York Jewish mobsters, if it taslks talks like a New York Jewish mobster, if it’s sympathies lie with New York Jewish mobsters…………there is a better than even chance it is a New York Jewish mobster.