From: The Times of Israel May 5, 2025
Trump on Gazans: 'They’re starving — we’ll help them get food, Hamas is taking everything'

US President Donald Trump said on Monday that the United States is going to "help the people of Gaza get some food."
"People are starving, and we're going to help them get some food.

A lot of people are making it very very bad — Hamas is making it impossible because they're taking everything that's brought in," Trump said in the Oval Office.

Trump says his administration will help get food to “starving” Gazans during a two-month-and-counting Israeli aid blockade, but he says Hamas has made it “impossible” by diverting humanitarian assistance for its fighters.

Israeli officials to date have claimed that Gazans are not yet starving and that enough aid entered the Strip during a six-week ceasefire to sustain the Strip for an extended period time, even though they have also argued — like Trump — that Hamas has been stealing aid.

The president adds that Palestinians in Gaza are “being treated very badly by Hamas.”