Overview

• Ankara published Emine Erdogan’s letter asking Melania Trump to contact Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and push for steps to end Gaza’s humanitarian crisis.
• Erdogan referenced Melania Trump’s recent letter to Vladimir Putin about children in Ukraine, urging her to extend the same concern to Palestinian children.
• The letter notes the figure of 648 Ukrainian children cited in Melania’s appeal and asks that compassion be shown to Gaza’s children as well.
• A global hunger monitor declared famine in Gaza City and surrounding areas and warned it could spread without expanded aid access.
• Benjamin Netanyahu called the famine finding an “outright lie,” Gaza’s Health Ministry reports more than 62,000 deaths since 2023, and the White House has not responded publicly.