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Trump Breaks from Netanyahu to Acknowledge “Real Starvation” of Palestinians

HeadlineJul 29, 2025

The governments of Germany and Spain said Monday they would airdrop humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip in cooperation with Jordan. But officials admitted the amount of aid they can provide pales in comparison to Gaza’s starvation crisis.

Meanwhile, President Trump has broken from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who declared Sunday, “there is no starvation in Gaza.” On Monday, Trump said he’d seen images of Palestinians on TV and that “those children look very hungry”; Trump later described scenes of “real starvation.”

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