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Amid starvation scenes in Gaza, Trump administration hardens tone on Hamas

Amid growing alarm about mass starvation in Gaza and images of Palestinians suffering from severe malnutrition, the Trump administration is hardening its tone toward Hamas, blaming it for the humanitarian crisis.


Hamas “didn’t want to make” a deal in this week’s round of ceasefire negotiations and now it would probably be “hunted down"...

WaPo

5:18 pm:

"Israeli Deliberate Use of Starvation as a Weapon"

Rates of severe malnutrition among children aged under five at Médecins Sans Frontières’ Gaza City clinic have tripled in the last two weeks, the charity has said, as starvation in the Israeli-besieged strip worsens.

The global aid community has sounded the alarm as Gaza descends deeper into mass starvation, with resulting deaths being reported daily as Israel allows only a trickle of aid into the territory.

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The charity blamed what it called an Israeli “policy of starvation” for the hunger crisis, as global condemnation grows over what more than 100 aid groups say is Israel’s blockade of most aid into Gaza.

“Israeli authorities’ deliberate use of starvation as a weapon in Gaza has reached unprecedented levels, with patients and healthcare workers themselves now fighting to survive,” MSF said in a statement on Friday.

At least 122 people have died from starvation in Gaza, with nine more dying in the last 24 hours, according to health authorities.

Guardian