Gaza

NBC News - In a rare rebuke, President Donald Trump said he does not agree with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s assessment that no one is starving in Gaza. The White House said that the president is "disturbed" and "troubled" by the images of children starving in the Palestinian enclave. "I mean, some of those kids are — that’s real starvation stuff," Trump said yesterday in Scotland during a meeting with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. "I see it, and you can’t fake it. So we’re going to be even more involved."

That involvement includes the U.S. working with international partners, including Britain and other European nations, to fund and set up food delivery centers in Gaza, Trump said yesterday. The focus on food aid for Gaza aligns the U.S. with countries that have been far more critical of Israel.

The move also comes as much of the world, a rising share of the American public and some of the president’s own political allies become more critical of Israel. But it remains to be seen whether there will be any substantive shift in American policy. Read the full story here.

Separately, the world's leading body on hunger said Tuesday that the "worst-case scenario of famine" is unfolding in the Gaza Strip under Israel's deadly offensive. It marked the direst warning yet from the IPC on the crisis unfolding in the territory.