The international media has been reporting "Hamas lies" on starvation in their coverage of the Israel-Hamas War, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said to the international press on Sunday.
"Contrary to false claims, our policy throughout the war has been to prevent a humanitarian crisis, while Hamas's policy has been to create it," the prime minister said at a press conference, the first of two scheduled for Sunday. The second press conference, addressing Israeli media, is scheduled for 8 p.m. Israel time.
On multiple occasions during his speech, Netanyahu referred to many detractors of the IDF's operations in Gaza as "false claims," taking issue with allegations that Israel is starving Gaza.
"Israel has let in close to two million tons of aid," he said. "Now if we have a starvation policy, no one in Gaza would have survived two years of war."
The prime minister claimed the IDF has taken several steps to protect Gazan civilians, but said that Hamas has violently raided aid trucks, and that the UN, being unable to distribute the aid, has caused tons of uncollected food to rot away.
To illustrate this, Netanyahu shared an image of food trucks by the Kerem Shalom crossing, and then went on to tout the efforts of the Gaza Humanitarian Fund (GHF).
However, he was further critical of the "campaign of lies" directed against Israel.
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