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Broadcaster Al Jazeera says its correspondent Anas al-Sharif has been killed in Gaza, and Israel confirms it
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Israel's Gaza plan risks 'another calamity,' UN official warns
A UN official on Sunday warned the Security Council that Israel's plans to control Gaza City risked "another calamity" with far-reaching consequences, as Benjamin Netanyahu insisted his goal was not to occupy the territory. The United Nations Security Council held a rare emergency weekend meeting after Israel said its military would "take control" of Gaza City in a plan approved by Prime Minister Netanyahu's security cabinet that sparked a wave of global criticism. "If these plans are implemented, they will likely trigger another calamity in Gaza, reverberating across the region and causing further forced displacement, killings, and destruction," UN Assistant Secretary General Miroslav Jenca told the Security Council. The UN's humanitarian office OCHA said 98 children had died from acute malnutrition since the start of the conflict in October 2023, with 37 of those deaths since July, according to Gaza's authorities. "This is no longer a looming hunger crisis -- this is starvation, pure and simple," said OCHA's coordination director Ramesh Rajasingham. Palestinian Ambassador to the UN Riyad Mansour said Sunday "over two million victims are enduring unbearable agony," calling Israel's plans for Gaza City "illegal and immoral," and for foreign journalists to be allowed into Gaza. Netanyahu announced on Sunday a plan to allow more foreign journalists to report inside Gaza -- accompanied by the Israeli military. - Sanctions calls - Britain, a close ally of Israel which nonetheless pushed for an emergency meeting on the crisis, warned the Israeli plan risked prolonging the conflict. "It will only deepen the suffering of Palestinian civilians in Gaza. This is not a path to resolution. It is a path to more bloodshed," said British deputy ambassador to the UN James Kariuki. World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus echoed that sentiment, calling the Israeli plan "deeply worrying, given the already dire humanitarian and health situation across the Strip." But Netanyahu said Sunday his country was "talking in terms of a fairly short timetable because we want to bring the war to an end," as he insisted Israel did not want to occupy Gaza. Outside the meeting at UN headquarters in New York, a small but noisy protest calling for an end to the conflict was met by a large police presence. The United States, a veto-wielding permanent member of the Security Council, accused those nations who supported Sunday's meeting of "actively prolonging the war by spreading lies about Israel." "Israel has a right to decide what is necessary for its security and what measure measures are appropriate to end the threat posed by Hamas," said US envoy to the UN Dorothy Shea. Israel's deputy ambassador to the UN Jonathan Miller said "pressure should not be placed on Israel, who suffered the most horrific attack against the Jewish people since the Holocaust, but on Hamas." Algeria's Ambassador Amar Bendjama called for sanctions on Israel in response to its Gaza City plan. "The hour has come to impose sanctions on the enemy of humanity," he said. "If it was another country, you would have been imposing sanctions a long time ago," the Palestinian envoy Mansour said. gw-aha/bjt
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Trump got into a shouting match with Netanyahu after Israeli PM denied pictures of starving Gazans were real: report
President Donald Trump got into a shouting match with Benjamin Netanyahu after the Israeli prime minister denied that images of starving children in Gaza were real, according to NBC News. Israel is building up troops as it prepares to possibly take full control of the Gaza Strip. The private phone conversation that devolved into the two leaders shouting at each other reportedly took place on July 28. The tense discussion came amid U.S. concerns about the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a relief effort backed by the U.S. and Israel, several officials told the network. On July 27, Netanyahu took part in an event in Jerusalem, claiming that 'There is no policy of starvation in Gaza. And there is no starvation in Gaza.' The following day, during his recent trip to Scotland, Trump pushed back, saying that he had seen pictures of children in Gaza who 'look very hungry,' adding that the area is suffering from 'real starvation' and 'you can't fake that.' This prompted Netanyahu to demand a call with the president, and they were connected hours later, according to NBC News. Netanyahu claimed during the call that there was no starvation in Gaza, arguing that Hamas had fabricated it. Trump interrupted and started shouting, saying that he didn't want to hear the assertion that the starvation was fake, adding that his staff had shown him evidence that children are starving. The prime minister's office was quick to deny the claim that a shouting match had taken place. 'The report alleging that a shouting match occurred between Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Trump is total fake news,' his office said in a statement on Friday. 'We do not comment on the President's private conversations. President Trump is focused on returning all the hostages and getting the people in Gaza fed,' a White House spokesperson told NBC News. A former U.S. official briefed on the call told the network that the call was 'direct, mostly one-way conversation about the status of humanitarian aid.' Trump 'was doing most of the talking.' 'The U.S. not only feels like the situation is dire, but they own it because of GHF,' the ex-official added in reference to the Gaza Humanitarian Fund. The phone call led to special envoy Steve Witkoff travelling to the region to find a unified way forward. The humanitarian fund has been operating in Gaza since May in designated distribution sites, some distance away from many Gazans in need of food. Large crowds have congregated near these sites, and Israeli troops have at times fired upon them. As of late last month, more than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed while trying to get food, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has stated. The U.N. has boycotted the GHF and has operated its own network of aid distributors in the Gaza Strip. Witkoss asked the Israelis if the relief efforts currently in place are sufficient or if they need to expand, according to NBC News. Trump was asked Tuesday if he would back Israel occupying Gaza, to which the president said he was focused on getting food to people in the area. About the possible military occupation, he said, 'I really can't say. That's going to be pretty much up to Israel.'
