Trump got into a shouting match with Netanyahu after Israeli PM denied pictures of starving Gazans were real: report

Source: The Independent

Trump got into a shouting match with Netanyahu after Israeli PM denied pictures of starving Gazans were real: report

Former official says Trump-Netanyahu phone call was ‘direct, mostly one-way conversation about the status of humanitarian aid’ with president ‘doing most of the talking’

Gustaf Kilander
in Washington D.C.
Sunday 10 August 2025 22:04 BST

President Donald Trump got into a shouting match with Benjamin Netanyahu after the Israeli prime minister denied that images of starving children in Gaza were real, according to NBC News.

Israel is building up troops as it prepares to possibly take full control of the Gaza Strip. The private phone conversation that devolved into the two leaders shouting at each other reportedly took place on July 28.

The tense discussion came amid U.S. concerns about the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a relief effort backed by the U.S. and Israel, several officials told the network.

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Netanyahu claimed during the call that there was no starvation in Gaza, arguing that Hamas had fabricated it. Trump interrupted and started shouting, saying that he didn’t want to hear the assertion that the starvation was fake, adding that his staff had shown him evidence that children are starving.

The prime minister’s office was quick to deny the claim that a shouting match had taken place.

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Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-netanyahu-shouting-match-gaza-starvation-b2805154.html

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