Marjorie Taylor Greene says Gaza experiencing ‘genocide' in Republican first
It came in a social media post following comments by US President Donald Trump that contradicted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's claim that there is no starvation in Gaza.
Greene was responding to comments by Rep. Randy Fine, a Jew and one of Israel's strongest supporters in the US Congress, The Independent reported.
Fine had said on X: 'Release the hostages. Until then, starve away. (This is all a lie anyway. It amazes me that the media continues to regurgitate Muslim terror propaganda.)'
Greene responded: 'I can only imagine how Florida's sixth district feels now that their representative, that they were told to vote for, openly calls for starving innocent people and children.
'It's the most truthful and easiest thing to say that Oct. 7 in Israel was horrific and all hostages must be returned, but so is the genocide, humanitarian crisis and starvation happening in Gaza.
'But a Jewish US representative calling for the continued starvation of innocent people and children is disgraceful.'
Her social media spat with Fine followed Trump's contradiction of Netanyahu, who said on Sunday: 'There is no policy of starvation in Gaza and there is no starvation in Gaza.'
Trump, while visiting the UK to meet Prime Minister Keir Starmer this week, said the Palestinian enclave is suffering from 'real starvation.'
Palestinian children in Gaza 'look very hungry,' he added, saying the US would work with other countries to provide assistance to the enclave.
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