Israeli Gunfire As Desperate Palestinian Crowds Swarm U.S.-backed Gaza Aid Site
FULL: 'Gazans Not Starving...They Don't Exercise': Netanyahu's Shocker As Israel Faces Fire Over Aid
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu shoots down claims of mass starvation in Gaza during an address to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Conference, chaired by Israel, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem. He said that Israel has supplied about 1.8 million tons of food and humanitarian aid to Gaza and 'this means that there cannot be mass starvation at all.' However, he went a step further to explain with an example of Palestinian prisoners. He claimed that there hasn't been a single case of emaciated prisoners but it's quite the opposite as they don't get much exercise. Watch his full speech here.
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