hebrew → English transcript

We didn’t say we’re stopping all humanitarian aid from entering.

We said we’re specifically stopping the trucks that Hamas seizes and basically takes the lion’s share for itself,

keeping it for itself, and then the leftovers, the “leftovers,” it sells at exorbitant prices to the Palestinian population

and by doing so it recruits new terrorists, terrorist operatives, and says to a Palestinian woman,

You want this flour? Give me your son, 15 years old.

And that’s how they sustain their war machine, and that’s why we wanted to prevent it.

And we said we’ll prevent this and, in parallel, build distribution points through the GHF,

the Gaza Humanitarian Fund of the Americans, who will distribute the food.

So we didn’t want to do a lot here; we wanted the opposite, to bypass Hamas’s looting and robbery.

Only it didn’t work as we wanted; it didn’t succeed because there weren’t enough points, etc.

So we learned the lesson, we stopped it, and now we’re acting in a different way,

Aid is coming in; we’re doing our utmost to ensure that most of it does not reach Hamas.

And at the same time, we are really increasing the number of distribution points, the secured routes

and also the airdrops, the airdrops that usually do not reach Hamas.

There is no starvation, no starvation. There was no starvation, and there wasn't; there was a shortage, and certainly there was no policy of starvation.

I just said now at the press conference, if we had wanted starvation, if that were our policy,

those two million would not be alive today, after 20 months.

Same thing with genocide: if we had wanted to commit genocide, it would have taken exactly one afternoon.

There is no starvation, no policy of starvation; there was a shortage, and it needs to be stopped, and it is being stopped—that is exactly what we are doing.