US President Donald Trump and Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer wave as they board Air Force One in Glasgow, Scotland. AFP
"I mean, some of those kids -- that's real starvation stuff," Trump told reporters following a meeting in Scotland with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
"We're going to be getting some good strong food, we can save a lot of people," he said.
He announced the US would set up walk-in "food centres" in Gaza.
"We're going to set up food centres where the people can walk in -- and no boundaries. We're not going to have fences," he told reporters in Scotland.
sked whether he agreed with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that there was no starvation in Gaza, Trump said: "I don't know. I mean, based on television, I would say not particularly, because those children look very hungry."
Downing Street has said before the meeting, Starmer would press Trump on ending "the unspeakable suffering" in Gaza and urge a revival of stalled ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas as a hunger crisis deepens in the besieged Palestinian territory.
Reject hunger
Trump said Sunday the United States would give more aid to Gaza, but he wanted other countries to step up.
"It's not a US problem. It's an international problem," he said, before embarking on trade talks with EU chief Ursula von der Leyen.
The US President also said a ceasefire in Gaza was "possible".
Few truck loads of food reached hungry Gazans on Monday after Israel promised to open secure aid routes and declared a "tactical pause" in fighting in parts of the territory.
But humanitarian agencies warned vast amounts more were needed to counter starvation.
United Nations chief Antonio Guterres urged international action against hunger.
"Hunger fuels instability and undermines peace. We must never accept hunger as a weapon of war," he told a UN conference.
Last week, the United States and Israel withdrew from Gaza truce talks, with US envoy Steve Witkoff accusing Hamas of blocking a deal -- a claim rejected by the Palestinian militant group.
Starmer held talks with French and German counterparts on Saturday, after which the UK government said they agreed "it would be vital to ensure robust plans are in place to turn an urgently-needed ceasefire into lasting peace".
But the Downing Street statement made no mention of Palestinian statehood, which French President Emmanuel Macron has announced his country will recognise in September.
ore than 220 MPs in Britain's 650-seat parliament, including dozens from Starmer's own Labour party, have demanded that he too recognise Palestinian statehood.
Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds told ITV on Monday that "every Labour MP, was elected on a manifesto of recognition of a Palestinian state" and that it was "a case of when, not if."
Starmer, under domestic pressure to follow France's lead and recognise a Palestinian state, called the situation unfolding in Gaza an "absolute catastrophe".
* This story was edited by Ahram Online.
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