The president of the United States, Donald Trump, has rejected this Sunday to qualify as genocide the performance of the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip, where more than 60,800 Palestinians have already died due to their attacks in almost two years, including about 200 for hunger or malnutrition, while he has defended that his country is the “unique” that he is contributing to “feed” the Gazaties.
When asked about the existence of “evidence of genocide” in the Palestinian enclave, the president has indicated that “I do not believe”, pointing out that what is being produced in Gaza for more than 20 months is a “war.”
The Chief of the White House has taken the opportunity to remember that “on October 7, horrible things happened”, in allusion to the attacks executed by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) that left about 1,200 dead and 250 kidnapped. “It was something horrible, horrible, the worst I have seen. I have seen many bad things since I am president in terms of wars,” he said.
In addition, in reference to the starvation situation facing the residents of the Strip, where about 175 people have already died, including 93 children, for this cause, the White House head has affirmed that “we only want people to have food, and we are the only country that is really doing it. We are contributing money to feed people.”
Thus, he has defended the “excellent” work of his special envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, which last Friday visited a helping position of the controversial Humanitarian Foundation for Gaza (GHF), the NGO configured by the US and Israel, accused of having turned its distributions into a trap that has cost the lives of more than a million.
“We want Israel to feed it. We are making considerable contributions, basically to buy food and feed people. We do not want people to go hungry or starve,” he said, after last week he confirmed that he is working on a new humanitarian assistance distribution plan.
The authorities of the Gaza Strip, controlled by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), have estimated this Sunday in more than 60,800 the dead because of the offensive unleashed by Israel against the enclave after the attacks of October 7, 2023, including about 1,500 when they were shot by Israeli troops when they tried to obtain help and 175 by hunger or malnutrition.