Trump wants Palestinians in Gaza fed as UN is to hold emergency meeting on hostage situation
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Hamas says it's prepared to coordinate with the Red Cross to deliver aid to hostages it holds in Gaza, if Israel permanently opens humanitarian corridors and halts airstrikes during the distribution of aid.
This as Israel's mission to the U.N. says it has requested an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council on the hostages held by Hamas.
Meanwhile, far-right Israeli minister Ben Gvir visited Jerusalem's most sensitive holy site, triggering regional condemnation and fears that the provocation could further escalate tensions.
Tracey Furniss reports.
Explosions seen over the Gaza early Monday as Israel continues to target the enclave.
The attacks come after Israel's mission to the U.N. called for an emergency meeting of the Security Council on the hostages held by Hamas. The meeting will take place on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, Palestinian women and children search for aid for their families describing it as their battle to get food amid the crowd returning from the Israeli-run distribution hub Zikum in northern Gaza.
Mohammed walked in the opposite direction to the flow of people and empty trucks, holding out a plate. He said, "I'm the eldest of my siblings after my father. He was killed in an airstrike yesterday. I am trying to ask anyone to give me a plate of flour or a meal from the aid that arrived today."
This displaced Palestinian woman said they never get their fair share of aid. "My husband is paralysed and there are widows and women like me who can't secure food for their children.
Some young men take the aid and sell it at high prices. I cannot afford to buy it," she said.
U.S. President Donald Trump spoke to reporters about Gaza and its food crisis on Sunday shortly before returning to the White House following a weekend break.
"We want the people fed. And we're the only country that's really doing that. We're putting up money to get the people fed. We want Israel to get them fed. We're giving some pretty big contributions, basically to purchase food so the people can be fed. We don't want people going hungry and we don't want people to starve."
Meanwhile, controversy as Israel's National Security Minister Ben Givr condemned Hamas' videos of hostage, Evyatar David, while outside Jerusalem's most sensitive holy site -- the hilltop compound in the Old City revered by Jews and Muslims.
Jews call the site the Temple Mount Muslims call it the Noble Sanctuary.
The conflicting claims to the site have often spilled over into violence, and visits by Ben-Gvir are seen as provocations.
