Asked if he agreed with Netanyahu that it was a "bold-faced lie" to say Israel was fuelling hunger in Gaza, the US president replied: "I don't know... those children look very hungry... that's real starvation stuff." Speaking during a meeting with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer in Scotland, Trump said: "Nobody's done anything great over there. The whole place is a mess... I told Israel maybe they have to do it a different way." His comments came after the UN's humanitarian chief said "vast amounts" of food were needed to stave off starvation.

Tom Fletcher told the BBC he welcomed Israel's measures over the weekend to allow more aid into Gaza in the form of airdrops, and military pauses to allow food convoys to reach people. But he said what had been delivered so far was just "a drop in the ocean" of what was required. "It's the beginning, but the next few days are really make or break. We need to deliver at a much, much greater scale. We need vast amounts of aid going in, much faster," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme. Israel said 120 lorry loads were collected from crossings on Sunday during the first daily 10-hour "tactical pause" in military operations, and that Jordan and the United Arab Emirates airdropped 28 packages of food.

Hours after Mr Fletcher spoke, the territory's Hamas-run health ministry said another 14 people had died as a result of malnutrition over the past 24 hours. That brought the total number of malnutrition-related deaths since the war begin in October 2023 to 147, including 88 children, according to the ministry. Israel, which controls the entry of all supplies to Gaza, has denied there is starvation in Gaza and rejected accusations of being responsible for food shortages. (BBC)