Israel's leader claims no one in Gaza is starving. Data and witnesses disagree
US President Donald Trump on Monday said he disagreed with Netanyahu's claim of no starvation, noting the images emerging of emaciated people: 'Those children look very hungry.'
After international pressure, Israel at the weekend announced humanitarian pauses, airdrops and other measures meant to allow more aid to Palestinians in Gaza. But people there say little or nothing has changed on the ground. The UN has described it as a one-week scale-up of aid, and Israel has not said how long the latest measures will last.
'This aid, delivered in this way, is an insult to the Palestinian people,' said Hasan Al-Zalaan, who was at the site of an airdrop as some fought over the supplies, and crushed cans of chickpeas littered the ground.
Israel asserts that Hamas is the reason aid isn't reaching Palestinians in Gaza and accuses its militants of siphoning off aid to support its rule in the territory. The UN denies that the looting of aid is systematic and that it lessens or ends entirely when enough aid is allowed to enter Gaza.
Here's what we know.
Deaths are increasing
The World Health Organisation said on Sunday there had been 63 malnutrition-related deaths in Gaza this month, including 24 children under the age of five – up from 11 deaths total the previous six months of the year.
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