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Trump On Situation In Gaza Amid Israel Hamas War

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US President Donald Trump said Friday “a lot of people are starving” in the besieged Gaza Strip, where rescuers reported more than 50 deaths in Israeli air strikes since midnight.

Trump’s brief comments on Gaza came as he capped the first foreign tour of his second term that saw him visit several Gulf countries but excluded key ally Israel.

A two-month ceasefire between Israel and Hamas collapsed in March, shortly after Israel reimposed a total blockade on Gaza that aid agencies say has sparked critical food shortages.

On Friday, Gaza’s civil defence agency said that 56 people had been killed in Israeli strikes since midnight, with medics reporting dozens more injured.

“We’re looking at Gaza. And we’re going to get that taken care of. A lot of people are starving,” Trump told reporters in Abu Dhabi.

Israel cut off aid to Gaza on March 2, a tactic it has said is intended to force concessions from Hamas, which is still holding dozens of Israeli hostages it seized in October 2023.

Hamas insisted on Thursday that the restoration of humanitarian assistance to the war-ravaged territory was “the minimum requirement” for talks.

It also warned that Gaza was not “for sale” hours after Trump again floated taking over the territory and turning it into “a freedom zone”.

Israel’s latest strikes sparked panic in northern Gaza.

“We were asleep when suddenly everything exploded around us,” north Gaza resident Umm Mohammed al-Tatari, 57, told AFP.

“Everyone started running. We saw the destruction with our own eyes. There was blood everywhere, body parts and corpses. We didn’t know who was dead and who was still alive.”

Another resident, 33-year-old Ahmed Nasr, said the bombing continued through the night.

“We couldn’t sleep or find any peace. There is no safety. We could die at any moment,” he said.

‘Historic opportunity’ 

Hamas sparked the war in October 2023 with an unprecedented attack on Israel that resulted in the deaths of 1,218 people on the Israeli side, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official figures.

Of the 251 hostages taken during the attack, 57 remain in Gaza, including 34 the military says are dead.

The health ministry in Gaza said 2,876 people have been killed since Israel resumed strikes on March 18, taking the war’s overall toll to 53,010.

Israeli media reported that the military had stepped up its offensive in Gaza, following government approval of a plan to retake the territory earlier this month.

The army told AFP it was looking into the reports.

Israel’s main group representing families of hostages still held in Gaza said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was missing an “historic opportunity” to get their loved ones out.

“The hostages’ families woke up this morning with heavy hearts and great concern in light of reports about increased attacks in Gaza and the imminent conclusion of President Trump’s visit to the region,” the Hostages and Missing Families Forum said in a statement.

“Missing this historic opportunity would be a resounding failure that will be remembered in infamy forever.”

But another hostages family support group called for more military pressure.

“The military pressure must be much stronger, with high intensity, and coordinated with diplomatic pressure, a complete siege, cutting off water and electricity,” the Tikva Forum group said.

The United Nations estimates that 70 percent of Gaza is now either an Israeli-declared no-go zone or under evacuation order.

‘Fundamental human right’ 

For weeks, UN agencies have warned that supplies of everything from food and clean water to fuel and medicines are reaching new lows.

The World Health Organization said the last hospital in Gaza providing cancer and cardiac care had stopped functioning after an Israeli attack on Tuesday left it “severely damaged and inaccessible”.

UN special rapporteur for the Palestinian territories Francesca Albanese, accused Israel of “killing what’s left of Humanity”.

Israel says its aid stoppage and military pressure are meant to force Hamas to free the remaining hostages.

But senior Hamas official Basem Naim said the entry of aid into Gaza was “the minimum requirement for a conducive and constructive negotiation environment”.

“Access to food, water, and medicine is a fundamental human right — not a subject for negotiation,” he added.

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a US-supported NGO, said it would begin distributing humanitarian aid in Gaza this month after talks with Israeli officials.

But the United Nations on Thursday ruled out involvement with the initiative.

(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)


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