President Trump Says 'Israel Has A Lot Of Responsibility' When Asked About Aid Crisis In Gaza

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During a meeting on Monday with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, President Trump spoke about the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

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00:00Mr. President, back to Gaza, you talk about Hamas stealing food and stealing aid.

00:05What responsibility does Israel have for limiting aid to the region?

00:10And if I could ask a follow-up to the Prime Minister, what pressure can be put on Israel?

00:15Is that something that you and the United States have worked on?

00:18Israel has a lot of responsibility.

00:20They're hampered by the fact that you still have 20 hostages or so.

00:24And the people of Israel are very concerned about the 20 hostages.

00:28It's very interesting.

00:30You could say they could be more concerned about retribution than the 20 hostages.

00:34But they really want the 20 hostages to survive and live to make it.

00:41You know, many of the hostages came to my office, the Oval Office.

00:45And I was amazed by, I would ask them the question, was there any sign of love?

00:51Was there any sign of, when you were a hostage and you have all of these people from Hamas around you,

00:56sometimes 100, sometimes 10, sometimes 2, but you're a hostage?

01:01And you're being stored in a pipe.

01:03It's not even really, you know, a cave.

01:06It's a pipe, a little pipe.

01:09And some said they didn't think they were going to make it because they were losing air.

01:12There wasn't enough air.

01:13And they'd open up the pipe just in time.

01:16But they didn't do it on purpose.

01:17They just happened to open it.

01:19They got lucky.

01:20But I said, did they ever wink at you and say, like, don't worry, you're going to be okay?

01:25Did they ever give you some extra food, even if it was a piece of bread?

01:29Did they ever give you anything during that time?

01:31And some were there for 400, 500 days now, right?

01:34It's a long time, a year and a half more than that.

01:36And not one person said there was any love from anybody.

01:41You know, in other words, you have hundreds of people.

01:44And you see it in the movies where somebody is a prisoner and somebody is helping.

01:49You even see it with Germany where people would be let into a house and live in an attic in secret.

01:58You know, you'd see signs of something.

02:00I said, did you see anything like, did they wink at you?

02:03Did they say, don't worry, you're going to be okay?

02:05I never received, I ask that question all the time.

02:08I've never received one answer that said, yeah, they really wanted to help.

02:13No, the hatred is just incredible.

02:15But certainly access to food issue.

02:17What more can Israel do when you have to go to Congress as well?

02:21Well, I think Israel can do a lot.

02:24I will say that Iran, I think interjected themselves in this last negotiation.

02:32Can you imagine the beating they took?

02:33Look, we wiped out their nuclear possibilities.

02:36They can start again.

02:38If they do, we'll wipe it out faster.

02:39Then you can wave your finger at it.

02:43We'll have to do that.

02:44We will do that gladly, openly and gladly.

02:47They've been saying, Iran's been sending out bad signals, I'll tell you.

02:52For a country that just got wiped out, they've been sending very bad signals, very nasty signals.

02:59And they shouldn't be doing that.

03:01They shouldn't be doing that.

03:03They were talking about things that they shouldn't be talking about.

03:06They were interviewed on a recent show, the foreign minister, saying things that he shouldn't be talking about, shouldn't be saying.

03:13And I think they got involved in this negotiation, telling Hamas and giving Hamas signals and orders.

03:23And that's not good.

03:25That's not good.

03:26Yeah.

03:27Yeah.

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