Starvation is spreading in Gaza and threatens to escalate further — and American lawmakers, including some of Israel’s closest allies in Congress, are urging officials in Israel to do more to get food into the war-torn region.
“The Israelis have a concern about the food being misappropriated to Hamas fighters. I have that concern, but I’d like to get some aid in,” Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina told NOTUS. “I don’t want the food to sit there and rot.”
Graham said he planned to speak about how to get more aid into Gaza with Cindy McCain, who directs the United Nations’ World Food Programme.