‘We’ve got to be good to Gaza’: Trump says he pressed Netanyahu on aid

US President Donald Trump tells reporters that he pushed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to allow aid into Gaza as the Israeli ban on humanitarian assistance nears the two-month mark.

Trump is asked aboard Air Force One about whether the issue came up during his call with Netanyahu earlier this week.

“Gaza came up and I said, ‘We’ve got to be good to Gaza,'” Trump says.

“Those people are suffering. We’ve got to be good to Gaza. We’re going to take care of them,” he adds.

“There’s a very big need for… food and medicine. We’re taking care of it,” Trump says.

Pressed on whether he’s pushing Israel to allow aid into Gaza, Trump responds. “We are,” adding that he wants “to get food and medicine into Gaza.”

Asked how Netanyahu responded to the request, Trump says, “Well. He felt well about it.”

This is the first time Trump has weighed in on the issue of humanitarian aid in Gaza, which was a repeated point of conflict with the Biden administration.

The previous US leadership repeatedly pressed Israel to allow more assistance in, as international organizations warned about the ever-expanding humanitarian crisis throughout the war-ravaged Strip.