{"id":158737,"date":"2025-07-29T15:05:56","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T15:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/gaza-latest-trump-tells-sky-news-hes-trying-to-get-gaza-straightened-out-after-worst-case-famine-warning-sky-news\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T15:05:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T15:05:56","slug":"gaza-latest-trump-tells-sky-news-hes-trying-to-get-gaza-straightened-out-after-worst-case-famine-warning-sky-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/gaza-latest-trump-tells-sky-news-hes-trying-to-get-gaza-straightened-out-after-worst-case-famine-warning-sky-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaza latest: Trump tells Sky News he&#039;s trying to get Gaza &#039;straightened out&#039; &#8211; after &#039;worst-case&#039; famine warning &#8211; Sky News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The number of Palestinians killed in Gaza since the start of the war is now more than 60,000, the Hamas-run health ministry says, after Donald Trump said at his new Scottish golf course he was trying to help amid growing famine warnings. Follow the latest.<br \/>Tuesday 29 July 2025 16:03, UK<br \/>Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<br \/>As a reminder, the UN General Assembly is currently meeting for the second day of a two-state solution summit in New York, which can watch using the stream at the top of this page.<br \/>UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy is due to make a statement there at 4.30pm UK time. We&#8217;ll bring you live text updates here.<br \/>UN chief Antonio Guterres says it&#8217;s now &#8220;undeniable&#8221; that Gaza is now on the brink of famine following today&#8217;s report from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification.<br \/>The UN-backed food security body said famine thresholds have now been reached in most of Gaza, warning that &#8220;widespread starvation malnutrition and disease&#8221; were driving deaths.<br \/>&#8220;Palestinians in Gaza are enduring a humanitarian catastrophe of epic proportions. This is not a warning. It is a reality unfolding before our eyes,&#8221; Guterres said.<br \/>&#8220;The trickle of aid must become an ocean. Food, water, medicine, and fuel must flow in waves and without obstruction.<br \/>&#8220;This nightmare must end.&#8221;<br \/><b>By<a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/author\/alix-culbertson-743\" target=\"_blank\"> Alix Culbertson<\/a>, political reporter<\/b><br \/>British Palestinians have called on Sir Keir Starmer to take &#8220;immediate, concrete&#8221; steps on Gaza instead of &#8220;focusing on a symbolic gesture&#8221; of recognising it as a state ahead of an emergency cabinet meeting.<br \/>The prime minister recalled his cabinet ministers from parliamentary recess for a meeting today where they planned to discuss what the UK&#8217;s next steps should be, after&nbsp;Sir Keir held meetings with Donald Trump&nbsp;yesterday.<br \/>Ahead of the cabinet meeting, the British Palestinian Committee (BPC), which represents the experiences of Palestinians in the UK, sent Sir Keir a letter urging him to take actions they say could make a real difference to people in Gaza.<br \/>The BPC said recognising Palestine as a state is now &#8220;symbolic&#8221; as it &#8220;will not end the genocide and must not be used to deflect from accountability&#8221;.<br \/>Food aid is still being parachuted into Gaza as aid agencies and countries hurry to make the most of the open skies while they last.<br \/>Yesterday, UN aid chief Tom Fletcher said Israel&#8217;s military pause to allow aid into Gaza could only last &#8220;a few days&#8221;, making the next 48 hours &#8220;make or break&#8221;.<br \/>Sky News travelled from Jordan on a plane yesterday that dropped aid into Gaza.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/author\/sally-lockwood-669\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Correspondent Sally Lockwood<\/b><\/a>&nbsp;boarded the aircraft in Zarqa.&nbsp;Watch her report below&#8230;<br \/>Israel has summoned the Dutch ambassador after the Netherlands imposed a travel ban on two right-wing Israeli ministers.<br \/>A spokesperson for Gideon Sa&#8217;ar confirmed the move had been taken.<br \/>In our 7.54 post, we reported on the decision from the Netherlands to not just impose travel bans on Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich but also to summon the ambassador as well.<br \/>It reflects the international pressure that Israel finds itself under as the situation in Gaza grows increasingly dire.<br \/>Christian leaders in Jerusalem have condemned what they described as &#8220;yet another violent assault&#8221; on the town of Taybeh.<br \/>Taybeh is the only entirely Christian village in the Muslim-majority West Bank.<br \/>In a statement, the patriarchs and heads of churches in Jerusalem said: &#8220;Several vehicles were set ablaze and hateful graffiti was sprayed.&#8221;<br \/>It said the incident was &#8220;part of an alarming pattern of settler violence against West Bank communities&#8221;.<br \/>The religious leaders also criticised the response of Israeli police, framing it only as property damage.<br \/><b>For context:<\/b> This was just the latest in a string of recent settler attacks on the village, located near Ramallah, where the Palestinian Authority is based.<br \/>The West Bank has seen a rise in settler violence since the 7 October attack.<br \/>Here are some of the latest pictures from Gaza.<br \/>Palestinians continue to gather at charity food kitchens in Nuseirat, central Gaza.<br \/>The kitchens are vital lifelines for many.<br \/>It comes as a leading authority on food scarcity warned the thresholds for a famine had been reached in much of Gaza &#8211; see our 9.23 post.<br \/>The UN food agency has said that nowhere near enough aid is getting into Gaza.<br \/>This is despite new pauses in fighting from Israel explicitly to get more aid into the enclave.<br \/>Ross Smith, of the World Food Programme (WFP), speaking at a news briefing, said: &#8220;We&#8217;re getting approximately 50% of what we&#8217;re requesting into Gaza since these humanitarian pauses started on Sunday.&#8221;<br \/>He added: &#8220;We have not gotten the authorisation, the permission, to move in the volumes that we&#8217;ve requested.&#8221;<br \/>The WFP says that approaching half a million people are enduring famine-like conditions, with 90,000 women and children in need of specialist nutrition.<br \/><b>For context:<\/b> International pressure on Israel has intensified in recent weeks.<br \/>Images of emaciated children have been shared globally.<br \/>At the weekend, Israel announced daily pauses to fighting in three areas in Gaza and new corridors for aid.<br \/>But supply remains far short of demand, aid agencies warn.<br \/>A Palestinian doctor has warned: &#8220;We are out of options, and we are running out of time.&#8221;<br \/>Dr Salha, working at the al Awda Hospital in northern Gaza, warned of the dire circumstances they said the hospital was operating under.<br \/>Salha said: &#8220;We used to care for 200 women and children a day, now it&#8217;s over 2,000.<br \/>&#8220;We simply can&#8217;t cope. Malnutrition is devastating mothers and newborns.&nbsp;<br \/>&#8220;We&#8217;re seeing a sharp rise in caesarean sections, miscarriages, and babies born underweight.&#8221;<br \/>Salha warned they were running out of vital supplies for newborns, and that their own staff were surviving on just one meal a day.<br \/>&#8220;Three colleagues collapsed in our emergency department last week due to hunger, while working around the clock to care for patients. This is a humanitarian catastrophe,&#8221; Salha said.<br \/>Funerals are being held for Palestinians killed in recent Israeli attacks.<br \/>Medics at the al Awda Hospital, in Nuseirat, central Gaza, said an Israeli strike on a house early this morning killed Palestinians.<br \/>It isn&#8217;t clear how many people were killed, and it comes after at least 78 Palestinians were killed yesterday &#8211; see our 7.05 post.<br \/>Funerals are now being held for the dead, with at least nine bodies visible in pictures shared by the AP news agency.<br \/>Mourners were seen crying and holding one another, as the dead were carried past them.<br \/>Be the first to get <span>Breaking News<\/span><br \/>Install the Sky News app for free<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMijAFBVV95cUxNM3pyMVdWeE5CNE1JU1c0MnhOMlhqaE14aXU1dml1bEpjbkVrMUw3a2xEcG5FYkFsTlVkZTZldU15WS13aUM5SE4xd2pMQmpTOGUzcmlYS08xUUx3dkpjSkxrUW5FdEd6VVdZRHViUnpiOThEZHBXMldaZFlFV2JJaTV4WHZUWHdaM0c4ag?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of Palestinians killed in Gaza since the start of the war is now more than 60,000, the Hamas-run health ministry says, after Donald Trump said at his new Scottish golf course he was trying to help amid growing famine warnings. 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