Trump says people in Gaza need food, safety and it’s time for war to end
US President Donald Trump, currently on a visit to Scotland, has addressed the war in Gaza, saying the time has come to “end it” and a ceasefire is “possible”.
“I told Israel, I told Bibi [Netanyahu] that you’re going to now maybe have to do it a different way,” Trump said. “It’s a tragic situation, frankly.”
Speaking alongside British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Trump also said people in Gaza need food and safety right now, a situation he said he would discuss with Starmer.
‘We have to get the kids fed,’ says Trump
Trump called the humanitarian situation in the enclave “terrible” and said, “We have to get the kids fed.”
He touted what he said were strong US contributions to aid in Gaza, saying Washington sent $60m dedicated to food aid last week. “We only hope the food goes to the people that need it,” said Trump.
In May, the US-backed GHF took over aid distribution in Gaza, sidelining the United Nations and other international groups. Humanitarian officials have described the GHF-led system as disastrous, with only limited aid distributed at closed military sites near where hundreds of desperately hungry Palestinians have been killed while waiting for aid.
Trump says Hamas has become ‘very difficult to deal with’
US President Trump says Hamas has resisted releasing the final 20 living captives it’s believed to be holding in Gaza.
“Hamas has become very difficult to deal with in the last couple of days because they don’t want to give up these last 20,” Trump said in Scotland. “They think as long as they have them, they have protection. But I don’t think it can work that way.”
On June 24, the US recalled its negotiators from Qatar, with special envoy Steve Witkoff saying Hamas’s latest proposal showed “a lack of desire to reach a ceasefire”.
I wonder why... Repeatedly going back on your promises, breaking the ceasefire in March (while Israel already violated the ceasefire daily), attacking Yemen, Iran, Syria, not enforcing the ceasefire in Lebanon not even saying anything about the continued occupation of parts of Lebanon and Syria by Israel and continued daily assassinations... Next to appointing Israeli pundits like Witkoff and Huckabee.
It's a miracle they still want to negotiate at all and haven't simply executed the remaining hostages, who are likely slowly starving to death as well.
Trump says US will set up walk-in ‘food centres’ in Gaza
Describing the current humanitarian situation in the enclave as “crazy”, Trump said the US would help set up new “food centres where the people can walk in” with “no boundaries”.
“We’re not going to have fences,” he said, adding that the United Kingdom would support the initiative.
The notorious GHF, which took over aid delivery in Gaza in May, uses a fenced-off system that packs Palestinians into tight quarters to receive food. Deadly violence and crowd crushes are routine.
Just let the UN, UNWRA, WCK, etc do their job. Stop blocking the aid, that's all that's needed. This is nothing but another stall technique. Removing the fences won't change anything. (Apart from pictures not showing fenced in masses) Just more reason for your trigger happy mercenaries to fire at aid seekers.
More deflection, more stalling, more complicity in the ongoing genocide.
