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President Donald Trump of the United States said on Friday that he pushed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to allow food and medicine into the devastated Gaza Strip.
DAILY POST reports that no aid has been delivered to the Palestinian enclave since March 2.
Israel has said it would not allow the entry of goods and supplies into Gaza until Palestinian militant group Hamas releases all remaining hostages.
The UN World Food Programme, earlier on Friday, said it had run out of food stocks in Gaza.
Trump, while speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, was asked whether concerns about humanitarian aid access came up in his phone call with Netanyahu earlier this week.
“Gaza came up and I said, ‘We’ve got to be good to Gaza …those people are suffering,'” Trump said.
When asked whether he raised the issue of opening up access points for aid into Gaza, Trump replied “We are.”
“We’re going to take care of that. There’s a very big need for medicine, food and medicine, and we’re taking care of it,” he added.
DAILY POST reports that the war in Gaza was triggered on October 7, 2023, when Hamas killed some at least 1,200 people in southern Israel and took some 251 hostages.
According to Gaza health authorities, since then, more than 51,300 Palestinians have been killed.
“Hunger is spreading in Gaza, malnutrition is deepening in Gaza, injured people and other patients remain untreated in Gaza, and – as we have said before – people are dying,” UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said on Friday.
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