Trump Asked To Respond To Netanyahu's Claim That There's No Starvation In Gaza

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Speaking to reporters alongside UK PM Keir Starmer, President Trump was asked to respond to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stating that there's no starvation in Gaza.

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00:00...and immigration is imperative.

00:02Mr. President, President Obama said there's no starvation in Gaza.

00:06Do you agree with that essentially?

00:07I don't know. I mean, based on television, I would say not particularly,

00:11because those children look very hungry.

00:13But we're giving a lot of money and a lot of food,

00:16and other nations are now stepping up.

00:18I know that this nation is right here.

00:20It's a humanitarian crisis. It's an absolute catastrophe.

00:23But nobody wants to see that.

00:25And I think people in Britain are revolted at seeing what they're seeing on their screens.

00:30So we've got to get to that ceasefire.

00:31And thank you, Mr. President, for leading on that,

00:34and also to just get more and more aid in.

00:37And again, America's done a lot on this. A lot of countries have done a lot.

00:40We're now working with Jordan on getting direct aid drops in.

00:45But this is a desperate situation.

00:46Mr. President, do you think Israel has done oil candles for doing civilian casualties in Gaza?

00:51Well, I think nobody's done anything great over there.

00:56The whole place is a mess.

00:58It'll get straightened out, but it's a mess.

01:00They have to get food and safety right now.

01:04And ultimately, look, Hamas did a horrible thing.

01:08And they paid a big price, but Hamas did a horrible thing.

01:11But I always said, when you get down to the last 20 or 10, they're down to 20.

01:16We got a lot of hostages out.

01:18And you helped us, by the way.

01:20But we got a lot of hostages out over the last six months that I've been in.

01:24I've been in office for six months now.

01:26And these hostages have been, I mean, many of them have come to the Oval Office

01:31and they've thanked me so profusely.

01:33I said, you don't have to thank me.

01:34I did what I have to do.

01:36But I always said, when you get down to the final 20, they won't release them

01:40because that's like their shield.

01:42Very unfair.

01:44And so something's going to have to be done.

01:45And they were really unwilling to talk.

01:48But I've said that.

01:49You'll get down to the final 10 or 20.

01:51It turns out to be 20.

01:53I thought that would be the number.

01:54I said, they're not going to be dealing with us.

01:56And, you know, many of the hostages are now dead.

01:59You know that.

02:00And parents come up to me.

02:02A woman came up to me two weeks ago.

02:04She just wants her son back.

02:06And I said, how is he doing?

02:08My son's dead, sir.

02:09But he's with them.

02:10And we want the body.

02:12She wanted the body of this young boy, of her young, beautiful son,

02:15just as much as if he were alive.

02:17It was just as important.

02:18There was no difference.

02:20And it's a very, it's a tragic situation, frankly.

02:25But we got a lot out.

02:28And now possibly the fight will have to be a little bit different.

02:32But they have totally changed now.

02:33They don't want to give hostages.

02:37Very unfair.

02:37You have 20 living people, in this case living.

02:41You have many dead people, too, that they want to get in.

02:44That was a long time as well.

02:45Yeah.

02:45They have 20 living people.

02:48And I told Israel, I told Bibi,

02:52that you're going to have to now maybe do it a different way.

02:55Do you think a ceasefire is even possible?

02:57Do you think a ceasefire is even possible?

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