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Israel’s planned takeover ‘exacerbates pain’ in Gaza City, says Red Cross spokesperson
NBC News· 2025-08-08 21:30
Joining me now is the spokesperson for the International Committee of the Red Cross, Steve Dorsy. Steve, thank you so much for coming back. We really appreciate it.Thanks for having me. Let's start right there. Your reaction to what we've learned from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the IDF is now prepared to take over all of Gaza City.Kristen, we know that the civilians across Gaza are living in unspeakable conditions from public health challenges to access to food security to just maintaining their ...
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The Economist· 2025-08-08 00:00
“We’ve been gaslit at every point along the way.”The relationship between aid workers and Israeli authorities has deteriorated since the start of the war in Gaza. Humanitarian staff now face an ethical dilemma https://t.co/cgiylvixlF ...
Trump shrugs at plan for total Gaza occupation: ‘Pretty much up to Israel’
MSNBC· 2025-08-07 01:02
It's apparent by now that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is at the very least actively considering a complete occupation of Gaza, abandoning any pretense that Gazins should have any right to govern themselves. As the Wall Street Journal reports, quote, "Domestic media in recent days has been floating suggestions that Netanyahu has already decided to take control of Gaza entirely despite the opposition of the chief of staff of the country's armed forces. Since day one of this administration, Presi ...
US Mideast Envoy Witkoff to Brief Trump After Gaza Visit
Bloomberg Television· 2025-08-01 05:00
We reported on Wycoff coming to the region, to Israel yesterday. He's now there. He's met with the Israeli prime minister.What do we know about what happened during that meeting and what is expected to ensue later today. Little has been publicly said. It's worth remembering that this man, Steve Wyckoff, is a trusted envoy of the U.S. president when it comes to the Middle East, not just the Middle East.Also in the Ukraine crisis, he does tend to keep his own counsel. However, it has been announced that in ad ...
Trump envoy visits Israel as Gaza hunger crisis reaches 'tipping point'
MSNBC· 2025-07-31 16:19
Let's bring in Gershon Baskin, Middle East director for the International Communities Organization. Gershan, you're also in Israel. I'm curious, how are Israelis reacting to the images and all the reporting of starvation coming out of Gaza.And is it impacting their feelings about the prime minister. >> Most Israelis don't believe that there's hunger in Gaza. They don't believe that a line that people are starving is true.They believe it's propaganda. So, they don't accept it. There are more Israelis though ...
'Complete folly and foolishness': Humanitarian group CEO slams Trump's food plans for Gaza
MSNBC· 2025-07-30 17:44
953 babies born into war in Gaza will never celebrate their first birthday. The UN has already called Gaza the most dangerous place in the world for children. And now a new analysis by the Washington Post concludes that at least one child has been killed every single hour since the war began.Mothers struggling to keep their babies alive. One telling Reuters she's putting mint in water because there is no food to give them. And the truck to try to get food can be life or death.One mother through tears tells ...
Gaza's Hunger Crisis: Why Isn't Aid Getting Through?
WSJ News· 2025-07-30 09:32
Child hunger is increasing across the Gaza Strip according to Palestinians and aid organizations. >> And some of those kids are that's real starvation stuff. I see it.And you can't fake that. The IPC, the UNbacked scientific authority on food emergencies, reported famine conditions in Gaza, the most dire assessment since the war began. Pallets of food at this massive stockpile on the border could help address that suffering.Instead, they've been left rotting in the blistering summer sun. Both sides now trad ...
Senators weigh in on famine in Gaza as Marjorie Taylor Greene calls it a 'genocide'
NBC News· 2025-07-29 22:50
Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green called it a genocide happening in Gaza. Do you think she's right. I've not been to Gaza.Um, so until you get there, I guess you don't know exactly what's going on, but you don't want people at war. You don't want people starving. What do you say to the critics who think that what Israel is doing with regards to including aid is considered a form of genocide.I I say they're this this is America. They're entitled to their opinion. If it wasn't for the First Amendment, how w ...
Trump ‘troubled’ and ‘disturbed’ by images of children starving in Gaza, says WH official
NBC News· 2025-07-29 21:30
NBC News international correspondent Matt Bradley is in Tel Aviv with the latest. Well, >> it's been three days since the Israelis started allowing other countries to airdrop aid into the Gaza Strip and allow shipments of aid by ground through trucks into the Gaza Strip. Kind of opening very slightly the spigot of aid that had been allowed in Gaza after so many people there had been enduring months of an almost complete blockade of any aid going in.And now just today, we've heard two very symbolic but very ...
Israeli human rights groups accuse Netanyahu government of genocide in Gaza
MSNBC· 2025-07-29 17:53
Joining me now, Ben Rhodess, former deputy national security adviser and an MSNBC contributor. Ben, Israel's staunchest supporters are are being troubled uh in large part by images like the ones we're showing right now. This was a baby in Gaza who was delivered prematurely via C-section because their mother was killed in an Israeli air strike.That child survived only a short time. pictures of atrocities um do have the power, as you know, to change hearts and minds in ways that can't be undone. Is there a po ...