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an hour ago
- ABC News
Donald Trump says Gaza is a 'mess' as Israel denies starvation crisis
US President Donald Trump has labelled Gaza "a mess" and says Israel would have to "make a decision" about its next steps in the strip, hours after aid restrictions were eased. Speaking at his golf course in Scotland, the president suggested Hamas had changed its stance on negotiations to release the 50 Israeli hostages the group still held captive, in exchange for a ceasefire in the war-ravaged strip. "They had a routine discussion the other day and all of a sudden [Hamas] hardened up," he said. "They don't want to give them back, and so Israel's going to have to make a decision." Mr Trump said the situation in Gaza had deteriorated dramatically. More than 100 humanitarian agencies had warned the strip was facing mass starvation, as Israeli restrictions on aid fuelled shortages of food and other supplies. Israel denied its actions had caused a starvation crisis, instead blaming Hamas for creating the situation. Palestinian health authorities said 133 people had died from starvation in the last week, with 87 of them children. "You know, when I see the children and when I see, especially over the last couple of weeks, and people are stealing the food, they're stealing the money, they're stealing the money for the food, they're stealing weapons, they're stealing everything," Mr Trump said. "It's a mess. That whole place is a mess." He suggested it was a mistake by then Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon to withdraw from Gaza, although he could not name which Israeli leader had been responsible for the move. "The Gaza Strip, you know, was given many years ago so that they could have peace — that didn't work out too well," he said. "When Israel gave that up, whoever was the prime minister at the time, who I know who it was — but it was not exactly a very clever thing to do, because that was given so that they finally have peace. "And it's actually made the situation worse." Ceasefire and hostage negotiations between Israel and Hamas have collapsed, with the White House's special envoy for the Middle East Steve Witkoff saying the militant group displayed a "lack of desire to reach" a deal. "There is no point in continuing negotiations under blockade, extermination and starvation of our children, women and people in the Gaza Strip," Hamas chief Khalil al-Hayya said on Sunday night. "The immediate and dignified entry of food and medications to our people is the real and serious expression of the viability of continuing negotiations." Despite the stalemate, Israel has bowed to international pressure over the humanitarian crisis which has developed in Gaza. The Netanyahu Government ordered a partial easing of the aid restrictions in the strip, with the changes coming into force on Sunday local time. Pallets of aid were dropped across Gaza by the Israeli, Jordanian and United Arab Emirates air forces, while the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it had established "secure corridors" for the United Nations and other agencies to distribute aid. There are reports that as many as 11 Palestinians were injured as the pallets fell on their tents. Even with more supplies entering Gaza, it remains a dangerous situation for Palestinians trying to secure supplies. The ABC found Alaa Abu Muteer, 47, lying on a thin mattress in the Al-Shifa hospital in a corridor full of injured Palestinians. "Currently, I am unemployed. I went to bring food for my children. I reached the location, and saw there Israeli tanks that began opening fire on the people, and I was shot in my back," he said. "I have [10] children. They are all hungry, and I am also hungry. "I am looking for a mouthful of bread. I now need treatment for the wounds that I have." The IDF told the ABC it was not aware of any shootings in the area. Marwari Al-Barari, 39, said she feared the aid situation in Gaza had fuelled a dangerous culture. "This has taught our children to use knives, things like that," she said. "I saw a 10-year-old boy carrying a knife. Where is he going to? He said he is going to the aid distribution." She said the airdrops were the wrong approach. "I fully reject it, because I was in the south and it happened in front of my eyes. The people were living next to me, and the parachutes came down," she said. "There was a boy, 12 years old, that was killed on the spot from a parachute. "Also, these parachutes cause the barbarism and killing and bullying and stabbing and so forth. I reject it in full." Israel has accused humanitarian organisations of refusing to pick up supplies which have been dropped on the Gaza side of the border fence. In response, Israel has been accused of making it too difficult and too dangerous to collect the supplies. "We have hundreds of trucks that are waiting on the Gazan side of the Kerem Shalom crossing," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. "We've just announced that formally — here are safe corridors. "And the UN has no excuses left. No excuses left, stop lying. Stop finding excuses, do what you have to do, and stop accusing Israel deliberately of this egregious falsehood." The prime minister again denied there was a starvation crisis in Gaza, despite changing his government's policy in the strip and the international consensus on the situation. "Israel is presented as though we are applying a campaign of starvation in Gaza — what a bold-faced lie," Mr Netanyahu said. "There is no policy of starvation in Gaza, and there is no starvation in Gaza. "Hamas rob, steals this humanitarian aid and then accuses Israel of not supplying it." Aid agencies have repeatedly denied that there is any evidence of Hamas stealing food and other items. The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, urged the international community to continue pressuring Israel to allow more aid in. "When we think it can't get worse, it gets worse," he said. "Children are starving and dying in front of our eyes. "Gaza is a dystopian landscape of deadly attacks and total destruction."
Sky News AU
2 hours ago
- Sky News AU
Barack Obama rocked by claims of 2016 ‘quiet coup' against Trump, faces prosecution threat
Sky News host Rita Panahi discusses the 'quiet coup' against Donald Trump in 2016 involving the former Obama administration over Russiagate. 'You wouldn't have presidential immunity from treason,' she said. 'I mean, this is astonishing. It was a quiet coup, ... and it was successful in many ways.'
News.com.au
3 hours ago
- News.com.au
‘Just do it': Abbie Chatfield sparks outrage with shocking call to American ‘incels'
Abbie Chatfield is under fire for a video heavily insinuating 'incels' should harm US President Donald Trump. The Sydney-based social media personality, 30, a prominent left-wing podcaster and influencer, shared the clip to TikTok where she referenced 'incels' and asked 'when are you going to do it?', without directly naming the President. Incel, short for 'involuntarily celibate', refers to an online subculture of young men who blame women for denying them sexual attention. A number of so-called incels have been involved in violent attacks, most notoriously Alek Minassian, 32, who killed 10 people and injured 16 when he drove a van into a crowd of pedestrians in Toronto, Canada, in 2018. Chatfield, who regularly posts videos railing against Mr Trump, did not directly name the President in her video, but hinted he should be harmed while making a gun symbol with her fingers. 'Americans, when are you going to do it?' she said. 'Why is it not already done? Every day, there's another [gun symbol] happening, right? Awful for your country, right? Awful, right? Why don't we redirect this energy to something else, you know? 'There's all these incels, 'no one wants to f**k me', so they go and do [gun symbol]. You know what would actually make people respect you a little bit, and maybe want to f**k you? Is if you did it. 'You'd get heaps of fan mail. Oh my God. Oh my God. Just do it. Like, you're all doing it every day anyway. Like, I don't f**king get it.' Chatfield's management has been contacted for comment. Chatfield, a former Bachelor star who now hosts the popular podcast It's A Lot, has more than 1.2 million followers on Instagram and TikTok. Social media users condemned the video, which comes as the US experiences a disturbing rise in politically motivated violence. 'This isn't free speech,' wrote X user Chris Mate. 'It's not activism. It's incitement — and at the very least, she should be detained and questioned by federal police.' Another user wrote, 'This is the person who Albanese promotes.' Chatfield interviewed Mr Albanese on her podcast in February in the lead-up to the election. The pair discussed a range of issues including political strategy and voter engagement, climate change, women's rights, Mr Albanese's upcoming wedding, the war in the Middle East and Mr Trump. Chatfield, a vocal Greens supporter, later came under fire from feminist activist Clementine Ford, who branded her a 'f**king fake' over her political views, particularly on Palestine. Mr Trump has already narrowly survived two assassination attempts. Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, shot then-candidate Trump in the ear at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13 last year, killing crowd member Corey Comperatore, 50, and severely injuring two others. Crooks was immediately shot and killed by Secret Service snipers. Just nine weeks later, on September 15, Ryan Wesley Routh, 59, allegedly attempted to assassinate Mr Trump at his golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida. The North Carolina construction worker was allegedly lying in wait with an AK-style rifle in the bushes by the golf course when he was spotted by a Secret Service agent, who opened fire and caused Mr Routh to flee the scene before being captured nearby. He has pleaded not guilty to five federal charges, including attempted assassination. His trial has been set for September 8. In addition to the attacks on Mr Trump, a number of other high-profile killings have recently shocked the US. Luigi Mangione, 27, accused of gunning down health insurance CEO Brian Thompson, 50, in New York in December, has attracted a large fanbase of largely left-wing, female supporters. Mr Mangione has pleaded not guilty to state and federal charges including murder and will return to court in December. Last month, a Minnesota Democratic state representative and her husband were killed in their home in a 'politically motivated assassination', with another politician and his wife surviving being shot multiple times. Vance Boelter, 57, was captured after a massive manhunt. Mr Boelter plans to plead not guilty to murder charges, which could carry the death penalty.
