The Latest: Trump meets Starmer and disagrees with Netanyahu’s claim of no starvation in Gaza
Israeli strikes killed at least Palestinians before U S President Donald Trump met with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Monday in Scotland where they ratified plans to discuss Gaza A day after Israel eased aid restrictions due to a worsening humanitarian situation Trump commented he disagreed with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu s report that there was no starvation in Gaza Israel on Sunday broadcasted a pause in military operations in certain areas for hours daily to improve aid flow Alongside the measures military operations continued Israel had no immediate comment about the latest strikes which occurred outside the declared time frame for the pause between a m and p m Aid agencies welcomed the new measures but say they are insufficient Images of emaciated children have sparked global outrage The majority of Gaza s population now relies on aid and accessing food has become increasingly dangerous Israeli settlers torch cars in Christian West Bank village Palestinians say Palestinian residents of the Christian village of Taybeh in the Israeli-occupied West Bank say Israeli settlers torched two cars and left graffiti overnight It was the latest in a series of modern settler attacks on the village near Ramallah where the Palestinian Authority is headquartered Taybeh is the only entirely Christian village in the Muslim-majority West Bank and home to a brewery popular with tourists and foreign diplomats The Israeli military announced it sent forces to the village after receiving a summary that persons had set fire to Palestinian property It declared it has opened an inspection The West Bank has seen a rise in settler violence since Hamas Oct attack out of Gaza triggered the war there UK leader to discuss Gaza peace plan with Trump Starmer plans to discuss a U K -led peace plan for Gaza with Trump Monday in Scotland Starmer s spokesman Dave Pares disclosed Britain supports Trump s efforts to reach a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war and the plan aims to turn a ceasefire into lasting peace The plan was discussed by Starmer French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Friday Starmer will discuss it with allies including the U S and Arab states and at an emergency meeting of his Cabinet later this week Pares announced Details of the plan have not been made population Starmer is under growing pressure to follow France in recognizing a Palestinian state a move both Israel and the U S have condemned The British leader says the U K supports statehood for the Palestinians but it must be part of a wider plan for a two-state method to the Israel-Palestinian conflict Pares declared it s a matter of when not if Britain recognizes Palestinian statehood U K Foreign Secretary David Lammy is attending a conference on a two-state resolution at the United Nations in New York this week Trump disagrees with Netanyahu s claim there is no starvation in Gaza Appealed if he agreed with Netanyahu s remarks about hunger in Gaza Trump commented I don t know I mean based on television I would say not particularly because those children look very hungry Starmer standing next to Trump revealed We ve got to get that ceasefire in Gaza and called it a desperate situation Trump substantiated he and Starmer would talk about the humanitarian situation in Gaza Egypt president calls on Trump to assist in ending Gaza war Egypt s leader on Monday called on U S President Donald Trump to help stop the war in Gaza and deliver humanitarian aid to the strip s desperate population In a televised speech President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi reported the American leader is the one who is able to stop the war deliver the aid and end this suffering Please make every effort to stop this war and deliver the aid el-Sissi explained addressing Trump I believe that it s time to end this war He described conditions inside Gaza as tragic and intolerable Newborn dies after mother killed A newborn died Monday afternoon hours after she was delivered in a complex surgery following the killing of her mother in Gaza a hospital reported Soad al-Shaer who was seven months pregnant was one of Palestinians killed in an Israeli airstrike that struck a house and neighboring tents in the Muwasi area of Khan Younis Nasser hospital commented Her fetus survived after the surgery according to the Palestinian Red Crescent The newborn was taken to Nasser hospital where she was placed in an incubator and was breathing with assistance from a ventilator footage from The Associated Press exhibited She died several hours later the hospital stated The Israeli military did not instantly respond to a request for comment Deaths related to malnutrition announced Fourteen Palestinians have died of malnutrition-related causes in the Gaza Strip in the past hours the territory s Vitality Ministry stated on Monday They include two children bringing the total deaths among children from causes related to malnutrition in Gaza to since the war started on Oct the ministry reported In a message The ministry explained Palestinian adults also have died of malnutrition-related causes across Gaza since the start of July when it began counting deaths among adults Source
