Donald Trump has said he believes there is a famine in Gaza and he has told Israel that \u201cmaybe they have to do it in a different way\u201d.<\/p>\n
Speaking outside his hotel in Turnberry, South Ayrshire, on Monday, the US president said people in Gaza<\/a> needed \u201cto get food and safety right now\u201d and that he wanted to get ceasefire talks restarted.<\/p>\n Asked if he agreed with the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, who said earlier on Monday that there was no starvation in Gaza, Trump replied: \u201cI don\u2019t know. Based on television, I would say not particularly, because those children look very hungry. We\u2019re giving a lot of money and a lot of food and other nations are now stepping up.\u201d<\/p>\n Asked if Israel had done all it could to avoid civilian casualties, Trump said: \u201cNobody\u2019s done anything great over there. The whole place is a mess \u2026 I told Israel maybe they have to do it a different way.\u201d<\/p>\n Speaking alongside Trump, Keir Starmer<\/a> said the events in Gaza were a \u201creal humanitarian crisis\u201d and \u201cpeople in Britain are revolted at what they\u2019re seeing on their screens\u201d.<\/p>\n The US president said he did not believe Hamas would release the remaining Israeli hostages it was holding and that the US had \u201cgiven a lot of money to Gaza for food and everything else, a lot of that money is stolen by Hamas and a lot of that food is stolen\u201d.<\/p>\n Asked about the UK government\u2019s commitment to recognising a Palestinian state, Trump said: \u201cI\u2019m not going to take a position, I don\u2019t mind him [the prime minister] taking a position. I\u2019m looking for getting people fed right now.\u201d<\/p>\n Trump and Starmer were speaking outside the Trump Turnberry hotel and golf resort where they were due to hold a bilateral meeting on Monday.<\/p>\n The crisis in Gaza is top of the prime minister\u2019s agenda <\/a>in his talks with the US president. Downing Street indicated ahead of the meeting that Starmer would press Trump to take a tougher stance towards Israel and push for ceasefire talks to resume.<\/p>\n The prime minister will hold an emergency cabinet meeting later this week to discuss the crisis amid international horror at the images of starvation in Gaza. <\/p>\n Starmer is under pressure from senior members of his cabinet and over a third of his MPs to immediately recognise a Palestinian state. David Lammy, the foreign secretary, is expected to attend a UN conference in New York this week being held to discuss a pathway towards this. <\/p>\n Trump also suggested he would reduce the 50-day deadline for Russia to agree to a ceasefire with Ukraine before he imposed punishing tariffs, telling reporters he was \u201cvery disappointed\u201d with Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n skip past newsletter promotion<\/a><\/p>\n Our US morning briefing breaks down the key stories of the day, telling you what\u2019s happening and why it matters<\/p>\n Privacy Notice: <\/strong>Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. For more information see our Privacy Policy<\/a>. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy<\/a> and Terms of Service<\/a> apply.<\/p>\n after newsletter promotion<\/p>\n He said: \u201cWe thought we had that settled numerous times, and then President Putin goes out and starts launching rockets into some city like Kyiv and kills a lot of people in a nursing home or whatever.<\/p>\n \u201cYou have bodies lying all over the street, and I say that\u2019s not the way to do it. So we\u2019ll see what happens with that.\u201d<\/p>\n He added: \u201cWe\u2019re going to have to look and I\u2019m going to reduce that 50 days that I gave him to a lesser number, because I think I already know the answer, what\u2019s going to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump has said he believes there is a famine in Gaza and he has told Israel that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-298760","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114931508440290990","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}