LONDON: A shouting match broke out between US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after the latter denied that images of starving children in Gaza were real, NBC News reported.
They reportedly began shouting at each other during a phone call on July 28 over the effectiveness of the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, amid reports that civilians were being shot by soldiers and contractors at aid distribution centers, and people were dying of starvation.
The day before, Netanyahu had claimed that there was “no policy of starvation in Gaza, and there is no starvation in Gaza.”
The next day, Trump said he had seen images of starving children. “You can’t fake that,” he said, adding that Gazans were suffering from “real hunger.”
NBC reported that Netanyahu subsequently demanded a call with Trump, during which he told the president that the images of children were fabricated by Hamas.
