US President Donald Trump said Sunday that “Israel will have to make a decision” on Gaza, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denied Jerusalem had any part in widespread aid shortages there.

Trump, who is on a four-day visit to Scotland, was asked by a reporter about the images that have been coming out of Gaza of starving children, which he said he thought were “terrible.”

But he promptly pivoted to say, “They’re stealing the food,” without specifying who he was talking about, although he was likely alluding to Hamas, which Israel has regularly accused of stealing aid for its own benefit.

The president lamented that the US had supposedly donated $60 million to the much-maligned Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which has taken over the distribution of aid in the Strip, while “no other country gave anything.”

“It makes you feel a little bad when you do that and, you know, you have other countries not giving anything,” he said, sitting alongside European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. “Nobody gave but us. And nobody said, Gee, thank you very much. And it would be nice to have at least a thank you.”

“We’re giving a lot of money, a lot of food, a lot of everything,” he said. “If we weren’t there, I think people would have starved, frankly. They would have starved, and it’s not like they’re eating well.”

The actual figure given to the GHF by the US is $30 million, and the US is also far from the only country to donate humanitarian aid. It is not the largest donor, as the United Arab Emirates has given a larger percentage of assistance.

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Commenting on the slew of changes that he approved to the aid system in Gaza on Saturday night, amid widespread international criticism over mounting reports of starvation-related deaths, Netanyahu, like Trump, insisted that if not for him, Gazans would have starved long ago.

Speaking at a Christian conference in Jerusalem hosted by Trump adviser and prominent Evangelical pastor Paula White, Netanyahu said: “There is no policy of starvation in Gaza, and there is no starvation in Gaza.”

He claimed that Israel had “enabled the amount required by international law” to enter the Strip, which he said amounted to some 1.9 million tons of aid since the start of the war, which began with Hamas’s October 7, 2023, invasion and massacre in southern Israel.

Israel “enabled humanitarian aid throughout the duration of the war…Otherwise, there would be no Gazans,” Netanyahu declared, blaming Hamas for intercepting supplies and then “accusing Israel of not supplying it.”

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