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(NewsNation) — Yechiel Leiter, Israel's ambassador to the United States, doubled down connected his country's presumption the United Nations is blocking the organisation of assistance into Gaza to assistance starving Palestinians.
Amid the humanitarian crisis, Leiter told "Elizabeth Vargas Reports" the U.N. has "blood connected its hands" and volition not let assistance into Gaza without collaboration with Hamas.
"Israel is doing everything it perchance can. The occupation is our efforts are being blocked by the United Nations," Leiter said.
The U.N. has denied this. More than 100 foundation and quality rights groups person warned of wide starvation, and they say Israel is causing the blockade, The Associated Press reports.
"The U.N. is liable for immoderate hunger that exists close present successful Gaza," Leiter said. "We are sitting connected hundreds and possibly thousands of trucks already acceptable to participate into Gaza.
"If we proceed to crook implicit nutrient to Hamas, which the U.N. is doing, it means that we prolong the war. It means that Hamas becomes strengthened. It means that they tin prosecute much terrorists. It means they proceed to power the civilian population. It means that they power Gaza."
Leiter said Israel wants to "flood Gaza with humanitarian aid" but not done Hamas.
"If MS-13 took implicit a vicinity successful the United States and you had to combat MS-13 from their domination of a neighborhood, would you provender them?" Leiter asked.
Leiter besides said 90% of assistance is hijacked by the violent group. However, an interior U.S. authorities investigation recovered “no grounds of systematic theft” of assistance by Hamas, according to Reuters.
"Read my lips, they're lying, and they person the work for the people, due to the fact that close now, arsenic we're sitting and talking now, they tin determination those trucks successful done the Gaza humanitarian instauration that they garbage to do," Leiter said.
The Gaza Health Ministry said astatine slightest 79 Palestinians were killed trying to get assistance entering Gaza this week.
NewsNation asked Leiter astir the deaths, and helium denied that the Israeli subject was liable contempt it admitting soldiers changeable astatine a gathering of thousands of Palestinians successful bluish Gaza.
The subject said they posed a menace and acknowledged determination were casualties.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
