Washington (AP) – President Donald Trump On Tuesday, the US said it will partner with Israel to run a new food centre. Gaza To deal with It exacerbates the humanitarian crisis therehowever, he and US officials provided little additional details about the plan or how it would differ from existing food distribution centers.
Trump told reporters on Air Force 1 when he returned from a trip to Scotland.
“We’re going to deal with Israel, and I think they can do a good job with it,” Trump said.
Opaque details come as the Trump administration does Faces a phone call at home Overseas to do more to deal with it Gaza’s hunger crisis. Israel, a close ally of the US, is at the heart of international protests as more images of weakened children continue to emerge.
That pressure comes after the US accused Hamas of acting maliciously last week after it withdrew from talks last week to try to mediate a ceasefire in the 21-month Israel-Hamas war. But this week, Trump Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and brokecites photos of hungry people who publicly opposed him about starvation in Gaza.
The White House described it as a “new aid plan” to help Gaza people gain access to food, and promised details would appear. I didn’t explain in detail.
State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce said Tuesday that he had no idea of the “framework” as to how the distribution of new aid would work.
“I’m waiting for the president to come back. I don’t want to move ahead of him,” Bruce said.
Congressional Democrats He begged the Trump administration to strengthen its role in dealing with Gaza’s suffering and starvation.
More than 40 senators on Tuesday urged the Trump administration to resume ceasefire talks and sharply criticize the Israeli-backed American organisation, which had already been created to distribute food aid.
Sen. Tim Kane, a Virginia Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, questioned why the US has not allowed longtime aid groups to run food centers.
“I’m glad the president says this is a problem, but if you want to solve the problem, look to people who have been doing this for decades,” Kane said.
Some details Trump provided about the new food centre looked similar to the program that was already rolled out in May after Israel blocked all food, drugs and other imports for two months.
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, an Israeli-backed American contractor, opened four food distribution sites that month.
Israel and the GHF said the system is needed to prevent Hamas from sucking up aid. The United Nations has distributed food in Gaza during the war when permitted, but has denied a major diversion of Hamas aid.
Hundreds of Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces as they headed to the GHF site, according to witnesses, health authorities and the United Nations Human Rights Office. Israel only fired warning shots at people approaching the force, and the GHF says its armed contractors simply used pepper spray and fired them into the air from time to time to prevent dangerous crowds.
The aid site is located in Israel’s military zone and is out of independent media restrictions.
The UN refuses to work with the GHF, saying its model violates humanitarian principles by forcing Palestinians to travel long distances and put food lives at risk, allowing Israel to control aid and use it to further mass evacuate.
Trump said on Tuesday that he last spoke with Netanyahu two days ago, saying Israeli leaders want to distribute food “in the right way.”
“Israel wants to do that,” Trump said. “And they’re good at doing that.”
For the second day in a row, the president described the image of the hungry people and children in Gaza.
Trump said on Tuesday that anyone who saw the images coming out of Gaza would declare it horrible, “unless they’re pretty calm or worse.”
“They’re hungry kids. They’re hungry,” Trump said. “They have to get food from them, and we’re trying to get food from them.”
This shift brings Trump closer to a portion of his Magazine base. He rejects Republicans’ longtime clear support for Israel and sees the money of aid flowing through the country as yet another misguided foreign intervention.
Includes Georgia representatives. Marjorie Taylor Greena solid Trump alliance that reflects recent progressive Democrat rhetoric.
“It can be clearly said that what happened to the innocent people of Israel on October 7th is scary. It can be clearly said that what is happening to the innocent people and children of Gaza is scary. This war and humanitarian crisis must end!” she wrote to X on Sunday.
On Monday night, she went further and called what was happening in Gaza “genocide.”
However, Green’s comments do not represent the entire magazine.
On Monday, podcaster Charlie Kirk, who leads a powerful Turning Points network, opposed what Israel deemed a propaganda campaign to make Gaza people seem intentionally hungry.
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Associated Press authors Stephen Groves and Joey Cappelletti of Washington, Jill Corbin of New York, and Joseph Kraus of Ottawa, Ontario contributed to the report.
