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Netanyahu denies Palestinians are starving
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https://www.politico.eu/article/israel-pm-netanyahu-denies-palestinians-are-starving/
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Paul Ronzheimer is the deputy editor-in-chief of BILD and a senior journalist reporting for Axel Springer, the parent company of POLITICO.
TEL AVIV — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has denied people are starving in Gaza and blamed Hamas for the lack of humanitarian aid entering the occupied territory.
The United Nations warns that famine is imminent, with the organization’s expert on the right to food, Michael Fakhri, accusing Israel of starving Gazans deliberately.
Our policies are to put in as much humanitarian aid as we could,” Netanyahu said in an interview with Axel Springer, POLITICO’s parent company.
The group has deep roots in Gaza, meaning some food and medical aid given to civilians inevitably ends up with the fighters Israel is trying to eradicate.
Asked why more aid isn’t reaching Gaza by land, Netanyahu said: “Hamas is coming at gunpoint and stealing the food.
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