‘That’s real starvation stuff’: Trump warns of Gaza famine, contradicts Netanyahu as aid trickles in
Displaced Palestinians who have not received humanitarian aid gather as they survive on leftover food, amid a hunger crisis, in Gaza, July 28, 2025. — Reuters pic
Tuesday, 29 Jul 2025 9:32 AM MYT
GAZA CITY, July 29 — US President Donald Trump warned Monday that the people of Gaza are facing “real starvation”, as aid agencies sought to take advantage of an Israeli “tactical pause” of some military operations to rush in food aid.
Speaking in Scotland, Trump contradicted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has dismissed famine fears as Hamas propaganda.
Trump said the United States and its partners would help set up food centres to feed the more than two million Palestinians in Gaza facing what UN aid agencies have warned is a deadly wave of starvation and malnutrition.
“We’re going to be getting some good strong food, we can save a lot of people. I mean, some of those kids — that’s real starvation stuff,” he said at a news conference with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer. “We have to get the kids fed.”
Trump’s remarks came after Netanyahu declared on Sunday that “there is no starvation in Gaza, no policy of starvation in Gaza.”
US food centres
The United States already backs food centres under the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, but the GHF’s operations have come under repeated criticism, with the UN saying hundreds of Palestinians have been killed by Israeli troops while trying to access its sites.
The Foundation has also been accused by aid groups of facilitating Israel’s military goals.
Trump said the UK and European Union would back new food centres that would be easier to access — “where the people can walk in, and no boundaries”.
The war in Gaza has dragged on for almost 22 months, creating a dire humanitarian crisis exacerbated by an Israeli blockade on supplies imposed from March to late May.
The easing of the blockade coincided with the beginning of the GHF’s operations, which effectively sidelined Gaza’s traditionally UN-led aid distribution system, and which have been criticised as grossly inadequate.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday welcomed steps to reduce restrictions to lifesaving aid, but said it “is far from the solution to end this nightmare.”
In recent days, the UN and humanitarian agencies have begun delivering more truckloads of food after the Israeli military declared a daily “tactical pause” in the fighting and opened secure aid routes amid mounting international outrage.
Jamil Safadi said he had been getting up before dawn for two weeks to search for food, and Monday was his first success.
“I received about five kilos of flour, which I shared with my neighbour,” said the 37-year-old, who shelters with his wife, six children and a sick father in a tent in Tel al-Hawa.
Other Gazans were less fortunate. Some complained aid trucks had been stolen or guards had fired at them near US-backed distribution centres.
“I saw injured and dead people. People have no choice but to try daily to get flour”, said 33-year-old Amir al-Rash.
Israel’s new tactical pauses apply only to certain areas, and Gaza’s civil defence agency reported 54 people killed in Israeli attacks on Monday.
The Israeli defence ministry’s civil affairs agency COGAT said the UN and aid organisations had been able to pick up 120 truckloads of aid on Sunday and distribute it inside Gaza, with more on the way on Monday.
Basic supplies
Jordan and the United Arab Emirates have begun airdropping aid packages, while Egypt has sent trucks through its Rafah border crossing to an Israeli post just inside Gaza.
Germany on Monday said it would work with Jordan to airlift aid for Gaza and coordinate with France and Britain.
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, cautiously welcomed Israel’s recent moves but warned Gaza needed at least 500 to 600 trucks of basic food, medicine and hygiene supplies daily.
“Opening all the crossings and flooding Gaza with assistance is the only way to avert further deepening of starvation,” UNRWA said.
Netanyahu has denied Israel was deliberately starving civilians, but on Monday two local rights groups, B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights, accused the country of “genocide” — a first for Israeli NGOs.
The amount of aid entering the territory still falls far short of what is needed, say experts, who have called for a permanent ceasefire, the reopening of more border crossings and a long-term, large-scale humanitarian operation.
“We’re one-and-a-half days into these new measures. Saying whether or not it is making a difference on the ground will take time,” Olga Cherevko, a spokeswoman for the UN’s humanitarian agency, told AFP from Gaza.
The war in Gaza was sparked by Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack on Israel, which resulted in the deaths of 1,219 people, most of them civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official figures.
Israel’s retaliatory campaign has killed 59,921 Palestinians, also mostly civilians, according to the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory. — AFP
Yet, there r still zionist arselickers helping their master to tell the whole world there is NO starvation happens in Gaza!
ReplyDeleteOoop… these mefers have no mind of their own, to analyze any info they r been given!
Claiming others to be GG, w/o realizing they stand lower than the lowest GG.
Did anyone know that many parts of Sudan has already been declared Phase 5 (FAMINE - CATASTROPHE) since December 2024? After issuing the report the Sudanese authorities withdrew from the classification system.
ReplyDeletehttps://reliefweb.int/report/sudan/famine-declared-five-areas-sudan-govt-withdraws-ipc
The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) officially declared a famine in parts of North Darfur and the Nuba Mountains region, along with imminent famine in parts of South Darfur. Sudanese authorities in Port Sudan reportedly suspended its collaboration with the IPC on the eve of the report.
In its latest Acute Food Insecurity Projection for Sudan, published yesterday, the IPC said that Abu Shouk and El Salam camps for displaced people in North Darfur, and parts of the Nuba Mountains, are now experiencing Phase 5 food insecurity, the highest level on the scale. This is the third famine declared globally in 20 years, when the IPC launched its monitoring system.
Famine was first declared in North Darfur’s Zamzam camp, home to half a million people, in August. A famine designation requires meeting three criteria: more than 20 percent of the population must face severe food shortages, one in three of children must suffer from acute malnutrition, and at least two people per 10,000 must die each day from hunger-related causes.
At least 638 thousand people are currently facing Phase 5 (catastrophe) food insecurity in Sudan, according to the report.
Sudan’s acting agriculture minister, Abubakr El Bishri, suspended the country’s participation in the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) system. In a letter to the IPC on Monday, El Bishri accused the organisation of “issuing unreliable reports that undermine Sudan’s sovereignty and dignity”, Reuters reported.
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/yemen-ipc-acute-food-insecurity-analysis-special-brief-may-2025-february-2026-published-27-june-2025
ReplyDeleteGaza Gaza Gaza...but Did you know that...
More than 17 million people facing high levels of acute food insecurity; projected pockets of populations in IPC Phase 5 (Catastrophe)
Yemen is facing alarmingly high levels of food insecurity, with pockets of the population projected to face IPC Phase 5 (Catastrophe) by September 2025.
Nearly half the population for both the Government of Yemen (GoY) and Sana'a Based Authorities (SBA) controlled areas are facing high levels of acute food insecurity, translating to over 17 million people classified in IPC Phase 3 or above (Crisis or worse) between May and August 2025. Over 5.2 million people are experiencing Emergency levels of acute food insecurity (IPC Phase 4) and 11.9 million people (34 percent of the analysed population) are experiencing Crisis (IPC Phase 3) levels of acute food insecurity.
The food security situation is projected to worsen between September 2025 and February 2026 with an estimated 18.1 million people expected to face Phase 3 or above (Crisis or worse), representing 52 percent of the population. This marks a surge of one million additional people in Crisis or worse compared to the May to August 2025 period, including over 41,000 people projected to experience catastrophic levels of hunger and classified in IPC Phase 5 (Catastrophe) in Abs and Kushar in Hajjah governorate, Az Zuhrah in Al Hodeidah governorate, and Al Ashah in Amran governorate.
The famine in Yemen is many times worse, and images of starving babies in Yemen are posted online and misrepresented as famine in Gaza. So kejam these people.
your Zionist hypocrisy to distract from the genocide in Gaza is most dismaying
DeleteI think your lack of concern for Sudanese and Yemenis who are in a worse condition than Gazans is most hypocritical and dismaying. It is also anti-Semitic and racist as if only Isaacs (& not Ishmaels) are guilty of causing famine.
Deletemfer, u want to know what's real hypocrisy?
DeleteRead no further than yr kind of zionist fart about the Sudan femine!
Femine is sad & avoidable, especially in the case of Sudan.
But femine in Gaza is purely orchestrated by the zionist state of geopolitical play. It can be READILY & EASILY solved. Yet the mfering zionist state is going ALL OUT to expand & propagate that Gaza femine. Their aim is to depress the mind & spirit of the fighting Gazans, leading to them giving up fightings, so that the war can stop.
The zionist state COULD NOT sustain long period of war!
The Sudanese civil warcan be stopped too iff the efforts of the various world bodies r not been dispersed. Especially wasted through manipulated political moves initiated by the zionist state to sustain itself!