US Vice President JD Vance laments the “heartbreaking cases” of children starving to death in Gaza and says Israel must do more to get aid into the Strip.
“I don’t know if you’ve all seen these images. You have got some really, really heartbreaking cases. You’ve got little kids who are clearly starving to death,” Vance tells reporters during a visit to Canton, Ohio.
“Israel’s got to do more to let that aid in,” he stresses. “And we’ve also got to wage war on Hamas so that those folks stop preventing food from coming into this territory.”
Over the weekend, The New York Times quoted two senior Israeli military officials who acknowledged that Jerusalem does not have proof that Hamas is systemically stealing aid, beyond anecdotal cases. The IDF swiftly denied the report.
Vance says the US wants to make sure Palestinian civilians in Gaza get food, while adding that it also wants to ensure that Hamas “gets the hell out of Gaza.”
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