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(NewsNation) — As the United Nations caput wide has said Gaza is "on the brink of famine," United States ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee says Israel shouldn't beryllium liable for feeding them.
"Look, I would hold that food, h2o and medicine request to flood successful there. But you cognize who other is bare successful Gaza? The hostages," Huckabee said connected NewsNation’s “Morning successful America with Hena Doba” connected Saturday, arsenic Israel resumed airdrops of nutrient implicit the area.
Huckabee and Special Envoy Steve Witkoff spoke with Gazans astatine an assistance site connected Friday.
"They're the ones who are telling america their suffering is caused by Hamas, and they privation them gone," Huckabee said of Gazans helium spoke with. "They emotion President Trump, and they deliberation he's the 1 who's the cardinal to getting immoderate of this resolved and moving guardant for a amended beingness for each of them."
The 2 officials spent implicit 5 hours successful Gaza and met with the Gaza Health Foundation and different agencies.
“The intent of the sojourn was to springiness @POTUS a wide knowing of the humanitarian concern and assistance trade a program to present nutrient and aesculapian assistance to the radical of Gaza," Witkoff wrote connected societal media.
According to the U.N. World Food Program, 1 successful 3 radical successful Gaza are present going days without food, and much than 500,000 are facing famine-like conditions.
"It's tragic what's happening there, but the top calamity of each is that radical are blaming Israel," Huckabee said. "Can anyone archer maine successful the past of mankind, successful the past of modern civilization, erstwhile a federation that has been attacked and has its citizens massacred, erstwhile was it the work of the federation attacked to provender the radical who attacked it?"
The warfare officially began connected Oct. 7, 2023, erstwhile Hamas launched attacks connected Israel and kidnapped hundreds of people. At slightest 50 of them are inactive successful Hamas custody, and less than fractional are thought to beryllium alive.
