“Those children seem very hungry”: Trump contradicts Netanyahu and ensures that the famine in Gaza is real

But he said that what had been delivered so far was only “a drop in the ocean.”

“It's the beginning, but the next few days are decisive. We have to act on a much larger scale. We need large amounts of help, much faster,” he said.

In the midst of these facts, two important Israeli human rights organizations pointed out that Israel's behavior in the Gaza War constitutes a “genocide” against the Palestinian population.

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Organizations, which have been active in Israel for decades, declared in a joint statement that “in these difficult times it is especially important to call things by name”, while “demanding the immediate cessation of this crime.”

An Israeli government spokesman strongly rejected the accusations of genocide, the first made by human rights groups based in Israel.

“Our defense forces attack terrorists, never civilians. Hamas is responsible for suffering in Gaza,” he said.

Israel informed that on Sunday he entered help equivalent to 120 trucks during the first daily “10 -hour tactical pause” in military operations, and that Jordan and United Arab Emirates launched 28 food packages from the air.

Shortly after Fletcher spoke, the Ministry of Health of the Strip, directed by Hamas, reported that another 14 people had died from malnutrition in the previous 24 hours.

This raised to 147 the total number of deaths related to malnutrition since the war began in October 2023, including 88 children, according to the Ministry.

Israel, who controls the entry of all supplies to Gaza, has denied that he has famous in Gaza and has rejected accusations of being responsible for food shortage.

The Israeli army initiated actions on Sunday that, he said, would improve the “humanitarian response” in Gaza and deny “the false statement of deliberate starvation.”

Israel announced that there would be a “local tactical pause” in three areas of Gaza for 10 hours a day, as well as the establishment of “safe routes designated” for help convoys.

The military also allowed help of help from foreign countries, despite the fact that humanitarian agencies warned that the method was ineffective and dangerous.

The Israeli Military Agency Cogat, which coordinates the entry of aid in Gaza, declared that the UN and other international organizations had collected more than 120 help trucks on the border crossings, and that hundreds of trucks were more waiting to be collected.

Fletcher declared that the UN had collected less than 100 truck charges at that time, and said that between 600 and 700 charges they had entered Gaza daily on average during the two months of high fire between Israel and Hamas earlier this year.

When asked to respond to Israel's criticisms of UN agencies for not collecting help at the crossroads, he said: “We will not leave it in Pallets if we can. But to reach it our drivers face bureaucratic limitations, they face enormous security limitations.”

He also said that most UN food trucks were looted after Gaza on Sunday.

“Most of those trucks (…) were approached by desperate, hungry civilians. They took the flour of those trucks; it is very, very dangerous for our drivers.”

Fletcher also assured that UN teams in Gaza believed that the pauses of the Israeli army would only last approximately one week. “(It would be) clearly insufficient when before our eyes we are seeing on the ground this atrocity of the 21st century,” he said.

“We need a sustained delivery period – months, months – to accumulate, to stop that famine and accumulate the supplies again. Ultimately, we need a high fire. Pauses are a good step in the right direction, but stopping the conflict is the key,” he added.

Netanyahu, meanwhile, questioned on Sunday the claims that Israel was deliberately killing Gaza civilians, which would be equivalent to a war crime.

“What a more shameless lie. There is no famine policy in Gaza, and there is no famine in Gaza,” he said.

“We allowed the entry in Gaza of humanitarian aid throughout the war. Otherwise, there would be no Gazati. And what has prevented the supply of humanitarian aid is a force, Hamas. Once again, the investment of truth,” he continued to say.

Netanyahu said that the pauses and humanitarian corridors of the Israeli army meant that the UN “had no excuses left” not to collect and distribute all the help of border crossings.

“Stop lying. Stop looking for excuses. Do what they have to do,” he urged.

Local hospitals sources said Monday that Israeli attacks in Gaza had caused the death of more than 30 people, including help requesting.

The Israeli army launched a campaign in Gaza in response to the attack led by Hamas against southern Israel on October 7, 2023, in which some 1,200 people died and another 251 were taken as hostages.

Almost 60,000 people have died in the Palestinian enclave since then, according to official Gazati figures.

Additional report by Emir Nader in Jerusalem

This article was written and edited by our journalists with the help of an artificial intelligence tool for translation, as part of a pilot program.

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