The president of the United States, Donald Trump, described this Thursday the situation in the Gaza Strip as “terrible”, but given the questions of the press if he considers that Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza, the US president avoided the answer.
“It is terrible what is happening there. People are very hungry,” said the president, upon receiving the question in the White House if he coincides with the comments of the ultra -conservative legislator, Marjorie Taylor Greene, who accuses Israel of being committing a “genocide” against the Palestinian population.
Trump returned to support the controversial American private entity Gaza Humanitarian Fund (GHF), in charge of the distribution of humanitarian aid in the Palestinian enclave after an agreement between the US and Israel.
The president urged Israel to facilitate the distribution of food and accused Hamas of allegedly stealing the food, despite the fact that several local media reported that the US government has not found evidence of a massive theft of humanitarian aid by the Palestinian group.
“We gave 60 million dollars for food and it is a shame because we have not seen the results. We want Israel to watch it. Part of the problem is that Hamas is being robbed of food,” he said.
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The drama of humanitarian aid in Gaza
More than 2,000 human rights organizations, including doctors without borders, have denounced that the current humanitarian aid distribution system in Gaza is 2Mortal. ”
According to data from the Palestinian Ministry of Health, more than a thousand people have been killed by Israeli forces when they tried to collect humanitarian aid. Most of them, when approaching GHF centers.
The Gaza Strip faces one of the most critical moments at the humanitarian level due to the long Israeli block to the entrance of food, water, medications and combustible, which has fired this type of deaths in recent weeks.
The directors of different hospitals in Gaza have been warning that a large part of the population is exhausted, and that more and more cases of fainting and patients with symptoms of starvation arrive. Some families, they say, try to silence the hunger and cry of their children giving them water with salt.
In addition to Marjorie Taylor Greene, also legislator Thomas Massie and other voices of the ultraconservative sphere in the United States, such as the Strategy Steve Bannon and former congressman Matt Gaetz have also been critical of Israel.
With EFE information
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