Trump says he told Netanyahu to ‘be good to Gaza’ amid ongoing aid blockade – Middle East Monitor

The president of the United States, Donald Trump, said Friday that he told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week that has to be “good” for “suffering” residents of the besieged Gaza Strip.Anadolu news Informed agency.

When asked if he raised the issue of humanitarian aid deliveries, which Israel has blocked for about seven weeks, Trump told journalists on Air Force One that he told Netanyahu Duration a Tuesday phone call that “you have Gaza.”

“Those people are suffering. We become good with Gaza. Let’s take care of that,” he said. “There is a great need for medicine, food and medicine, and we are taking care of it.”

When asked if his administration is pressing the Israelis to allow food and medicine deliveries, Trump said: “We are.”

The previous Friday, the World Food Program (PMA) announced that it has “exhausted all food stocks” for families in Gaza, since Israel has remained closed since March 2. It also warned that its kitchens, a life line that provides only half of the population with 25% of daily food needs, is expected that supplies complete in a matter of days.

The UN Agency said the 25 bakeries he supported closed on March 31 after running out of wheat flour and fuel for cooking. Food plots distributed to families sold out in the same week. The PMA warned about a “severe lack of safe water and cooking fuel, which forces people to look for articles so that items burn a meal.”

Gaza has faced the longest closure of its main border crossings in history, without humanitarian or commercial supplies that enter for more than seven weeks. The PMA reported that food prices have increased to 1,400% compared to the duration of the high fire, while essential products are scarce critical, which increases “serious nutritional coneros” for vulnerable groups.

More than 116,000 metric tons of food aid, sufficient to feed a million people for four months, are ready to enter once it limits Ropen, the agency said.

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