Trump Urges Israel To ‘Get It Over With’ In Gaza — Because It’s Bad PR
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Former president Donald Trump urged Israel to speed up its brutal offensive in Gaza against terror group Hamas because images of the destruction there are creating bad publicity for Israel.
“Every night, they’re releasing tapes of a building falling down. They shouldn’t be releasing tapes like that. That’s why they’re losing the PR war. They, Israel, is absolutely losing the PR war,” Trump told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt in an interview Thursday.
The humanitarian situation in war-torn Gaza has become so difficult that officials within the U.S. government’s Agency for International Development warned in an internal assessment that famine is likely already happening in parts of Gaza and deaths are likely to accelerate due to hunger.
In addition to an estimated 31,000 dead and 2 million people displaced by the offensive Israel started after the Oct. 7 terror attack by Hamas, Israeli forces killed seven World Central Kitchen aid workers in an incident that raised new worries about the military’s engagement rules.
For Trump, the best thing Israel can do would be to get the invasion over with as quickly as possible, even as the White House has counseled against an incursion into the southern Gaza city of Rafah without a plan to minimize the impacts on civilians.
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