Overview

• UN agencies, Doctors Without Borders and Israeli human rights groups have declared an official famine in Gaza, citing acute malnutrition across the territory.
• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denies any starvation crisis despite mounting evidence and President Trump’s observed hunger among Gazan children.
• A May analysis from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification projects that over 500,000 Gazans could reach the highest level of food insecurity by September.
• On Last Week Tonight, John Oliver accused Israel of deliberately blocking food supplies and urged U.S. intervention to force expanded aid distributions.
• U.S. lawmakers are pushing to condition America’s $18 billion in annual military aid on guaranteed humanitarian corridors into Gaza.