Starvation stalks Gaza
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🗓️ 29 July 2025
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There are major international starvation concerns in Gaza, even as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says there is no starvation there.
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning. I'm Taylor Wilson, and today is Tuesday, July 29th, 2025. |
| 0:10.0 | This is USA Today is the excerpt. Today, the latest from Gaza amid severe hunger worries, |
| 0:17.0 | plus breaking down Trump's comments about Epstein Associate Galane Maxwell this week, |
| 0:21.6 | and what's at stake in a slew of upcoming governor races? For the second day running yesterday, |
| 0:27.5 | Israel paused its military operations in Gaza to improve the humanitarian response. That follows a series |
| 0:33.6 | of alarming warnings from world leaders and global officials from the United Nations World World Health Organization, and from dozens of humanitarian agencies that malnutrition and even starvation in Gaza are on a dangerous trajectory. |
| 0:46.0 | The UN's World Food Program says a third of Gaza's population does not eat for several days at a time. |
| 0:51.4 | One in four Gazans, it says, are enduring famine-like conditions. |
| 0:55.2 | The Hamasran Health Ministry, the chief source of health data in Gaza, says more than 100 people |
| 0:59.6 | have died from malnutrition in recent days. |
| 1:02.2 | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed those concerns yesterday. |
| 1:06.4 | Israel is presented as though we are applying a campaign of starvation in Gaza. |
| 1:15.5 | What a bold face lie. |
| 1:19.5 | There is no policy of starvation in Gaza, and there is no starvation in Gaza. |
| 1:25.4 | That prompted a response from President Trump while on his trip in Scotland. |
| 1:28.8 | Those children look very hungry, but we're giving a lot of money and a lot of food. |
| 1:33.5 | And other nations are now stepping up. |
| 1:36.0 | And it's hard to parse the Israeli leader's comments with some of what we've heard directly at USA today, |
| 1:40.6 | including from 35-year-old Amal Nasar, an English teacher from Gaza, who said simply that |
| 1:45.4 | she, her children, and husband don't have enough to eat. Trump, though, also criticized Hamas for holding |
| 1:51.5 | Israeli hostages. They don't want to give hostages very unfair. You can read more on the latest from |
| 1:58.9 | Gaza with a link in today's show notes. |
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