A report by a panel of food security experts that found famine in parts of Gaza prompted outrage from many European countries, but not from the United States, Israel’s main backer.
The White House has yet to comment on the report, which was released on Friday to international dismay. Compiled by a group of United Nations-backed experts, the report said stringent Israeli restrictions on aid, among other factors, were responsible for the famine.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel on Friday criticized the report in posts on social media, saying Hamas was to blame for any hunger in Gaza. Mike Huckabee, the U.S. ambassador to Israel, echoed his posts.
“Tons of food has gone into Gaza but Hamas savages stole it, ate lots of it to become corpulent,” Mr. Huckabee wrote on X.
The release of the report capped a week in which the Trump administration backed Mr. Netanyahu ’s government on several issues, or mostly stayed silent, even as many of Israel’s allies condemned its actions in increasingly harsh terms.
Over the past week, the Israeli government approved a settlement project in the central West Bank, which the country’s finance minister said “buries the idea of a Palestinian state.” And defying international calls to end the war, Mr. Netanyahu’s government is pressing ahead with a plan to invade Gaza City, where hundreds of thousands of people are sheltering.
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