Trump says people in Gaza treated badly by Hamas
The US president has repeated a pledge to help get food to Palestinians in Gaza when asked at the White House about Israeli plans for an expanded assault on the territory. Trump also accused Hamas of treating the people of Gaza “badly”.
“We’re going to help the people of Gaza get some food. People are starving, and we’re going to help them get some food. … Hamas is making it impossible because they’re taking everything that’s brought in,” Trump said.
Gaza has been under Israel’s total siege for more than two months with no aid – including food, water and medicine – entering the enclave. Trump did not offer his views on Israel’s plan of intensifying military action in Gaza.
They're treated much worse by Trump. Biden was definitely genocide Joe, but at least he managed some restraint on Netanyahu and managed to get aid back into Gaza. Trump is holodomor Donald.
https://hromadske.ua/en/posts/anne-applebaum-on-the-holodomor-ukraine-and-trump
That's from before the current Ukraine genocide, I wonder if Trump thought starvation was a good idea to forcibly remove people from Gaza. It also shows how dishonest Trump has always been and no, there is no evidence, actively disputed by the UN on the ground, of Hamas taking anything that was brought in.
Expanded Gaza war? Situation already ‘catastrophic and tragic’
Gaza residents say they don’t expect Israel’s expanded assault will make any significant change to the already dire humanitarian situation in the territory.
“Israel has not stopped the war, the killing, the bombing, the destruction, the siege and the starvation – every day – so how can they talk about expanding military operations?” Awni Awad said.
Awad, 39, who lives in a tent in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis after being displaced by Israeli orders to leave his home, said his situation is already “catastrophic and tragic”. “I call on the world to witness the famine that grows and spreads every day,” he said.
Aya al-Skafy, a resident of Gaza City, said her baby died because of malnutrition and medicine shortages last week. “She was four months old and weighed 2.8kg [6.2lb]. Because of severe malnutrition, she suffered from blood acidity, liver and kidney failure, and many other complications. Her hair and nails also fell out due to malnutrition.”
Netanyahu: Gaza population to be moved in intensive Israeli attack
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/05/middleeast/israel-gaza-expansion-hnk-intl
The Israeli prime minister says a new offensive in the besieged Gaza Strip will be an intensive military assault aimed at defeating Hamas but stopped short of detailing just how much of the enclave’s territory would be seized.
Netanyahu said Gaza’s population “will be moved for its own protection”. Netanyahu also said Israeli soldiers would not go into Gaza, launch raids and then retreat. “The intention is the opposite of that,” he said.
Gaza media office says hospitals two days away from collapse
Within 48 hours, hospitals across Gaza will be on the “brink of collapse”, according to the Gaza media office, which blamed Israeli forces for refusing to allow the UN and other international organisations to access some fuel stores in the enclave.
“We warn in the strongest terms of an imminent disaster threatening the lives of thousands of sick and wounded in the Gaza Strip,” the office said. The UN Emergency Relief Coordinator said last week that aid workers have been repeatedly blocked from accessing fuel in “restricted” areas.
“We condemn in the strongest terms the systematic crime of the occupation of Gaza by preventing fuel from reaching hospitals,” the media office said.
“We consider it a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law, a blatant breach of the Geneva Conventions, and a direct contribution to deepening the ongoing health catastrophe,” it said.
