Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene slammed the deteriorating humanitarian conditions in the Palestinian enclave
Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has declared that the situation in Gaza amounts to a “genocide,” blasting the worsening humanitarian crisis and starvation in the enclave.
She also called on Hamas to release the remaining hostages captured during the Islamist group’s October 7 assault on Israel, which left around 1,200 people dead.
“It’s the most truthful and easiest thing to say that Oct 7th in Israel was horrific and all hostages must be returned, but so is the genocide, humanitarian crisis, and starvation happening in Gaza,” Greene wrote on X on Tuesday.
She was replying to a controversial tweet by Congressman Randy Fine.
“Release the hostages. Until then, starve away,” he wrote last week, suggesting that the discourse around starvation in Gaza was “Muslim terror propaganda.”
Greene criticized the post, stressing that the lawmaker’s “awful statement will actually cause more antisemitism.”
Fine was reportedly dropped from a list of candidates endorsed by the pro-Israel US lobby organization AIPAC days after the post.
The UN warned on Tuesday that the situation in Gaza is one step away from being classified as a famine. There is mounting evidence that “widespread starvation, malnutrition and disease” are causing hunger‑related deaths, the UN’s food security watchdog IPC said.
West Jerusalem has rejected claims of deliberate starvation, placing the blame on poor coordination in aid flows and accused Hamas of hijacking convoys and stealing food.
In March, Israel entirely cut off the flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza to pressure Hamas into a ceasefire, but later relented.
On Sunday, following mounting international pressure, Israel pledged to resume food airdrops and allow pauses in fighting to let humanitarian aid trucks into Gaza. According to the UN, more than 100 trucks made it into the enclave on Sunday.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has stressed that the volume of assistance needs to increase. “The trickle of aid must become an ocean,” he wrote on Tuesday, calling for Israel and Hamas to agree on an immediate ceasefire.
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