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The UN's Emergency Relief Coordinator has lashed out at Israel, saying the famine in Gaza could have been prevented.

His remarks come after the world's leading authority on food and security said more than a half million people in Gaza face catastrophic levels of hunger.

MPIRS Jackie Northam has more from Tel Aviv.

UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Tom Fletcher said the report by the integrated food security

phase classification should be read in sorrow and in anger.

He said that Gaza famine was predictable and openly promoted by some Israeli leaders as a weapon of war.

A famine caused by cruelty, justified by revenge, enabled by indifference, and sustained by complicity.

Fletcher called on Israel to allow food and other humanitarian aid into Gaza.

Israeli officials said the report's findings

were false and biased and that Israel had taken steps recently to allow more humanitarian aid into Gaza.

Jackie Northam, NPR News, Tel Aviv.

The FBI has searched the home of former national security advisor John Bolton. And Pierce Carey Johnson reports

Bolton has become a sharp critic of President Trump. The FBI says it pursued court-authorized

activity at Bolton's Maryland home. As director Cash Patel posted on social media, no one is above

the law. Bolton had worked on national security issues for about a year

during the first Trump administration, but he later criticized Trump in its hell-all-book. The president's

allies have since raised questions about Bolton's handling of classified documents, which Bolton

describes as retaliation. This year, the Trump administration yanked Bolton security detail, which was in place because of threats from Iran.

The president told reporters he knew nothing about the FBI search and said Bolton could be a, quote,

very unpatriotic guy.

Carrie Johnson, NPR News, Washington.

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