Obama calls for Gaza aid amid starvation concerns despite hostage situation

Former president Barack Obama issued a rare statement weighing hunger in Gaza on Sunday, indicating that aid must flow to the Palestinians regardless of whether Israel can secure a hostage deal at the present time.

Obama made a statement on social media, referring to reports from the New York Times, saying that “Ghazan is dying from hunger.” Israel, which has been restricted to Gaza earlier this year, has recently begun to Airdrop Aid in the region, and its leaders argue that hunger reports are a wrong campaign promoted by Hamas. Reports from Fox News’ Trey Yingst indicated that hunger is already spread throughout the region.

Obama wrote to X: “While the permanent decision of the crisis in Gaza should involve the return of all hostages and the cessation of the military operations of Israel, these articles emphasize the immediate need to take measures to prevent the times when innocent people die from hunger that can be prevented.”

“It is necessary to allow help to reach people in Gaza. There is no justification for keeping food and water away from civilian families,” he added.

Hamas loses an iron grip on Gaza, where the US -backed group gets help to the needy Palestinians

President Donald Trump described our efforts to provide aid to Gaza when asked about the situation on Sunday. A meeting with the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Lin at the time, stated that Europe had not provided Gaza aid. He also said that Hamas steals many of the aid that is sent to the Palestinians, and it is a claim made by Israel over and over again.

“When I see children and when I see, especially during the past two weeks, people steal food, they steal money and steal money for food. They steal weapons, and they steal everything,” Trump told reporters.

He added: “It is chaos, this is all chaos. Gaza’s tape, you know that it has been given many years ago so that they could get peace. This did not work well.”

News means “highly interested” with their journalists in Gaza, urging the Israeli authorities to help

Palestinian children are on the waiting list for a part of the hot foods that a charitable kitchen distributes in the Nuserat refugee camp in the Gaza Strip in the middle of July 15, 2025. (Eyad Baba/AFP via Getty Images)

The Israel Defense Army says that it had made 28 drops within Sunday hours, in addition to transporting about 250 trucks avice over the week.

“Let me be clear: Israel supports aid to civilians, not Hamas. The Israeli Defense Army will continue to support the flow of humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza,” said a spokesman for the IDF on Sunday.

President Donald Trump says the situation in Gaza is “chaos”, on the pretext that Hamas was stealing aid to the Palestinians.

It also prompted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to criticize his regime, on the pretext that the United Nations is pushing a liar for widespread hunger. He told Jerusalem Post on Sunday that Israel’s policy has long been to allow help in Gaza as long as it did not benefit Hamas.

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“We have done this so far,” Netanyahu told the newspaper. “But the United Nations is spreading lies and lies from Israel. They say we do not allow humanitarian supply, yet we are doing so. There are safe passages. They have always existed, but they are now official. No more excuses.”