Anne Aly criticises Simon Birmingham for repeating Netanyahu’s ‘dismissive’ response to aid worker’s death – as it happened

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After a number of comments about the state of famine in Gaza, which Hyman appears to be disputing - it's quite difficult to keep up with his comments, though they seem to include allegations that Hamas is stealing aid - he is asked by host Sally Sara if he's rejecting UN concerns of hunger and starvation in Gaza. I will come back and check his comments shortly but the upshot seems to be that he is, more or less.

I'll bring you more direct lines from this interview shortly, bear with me.

I mean, obviously, we know that this isn't something that the IDF would do or the Israeli Air Force would do on purpose.

There's a war going on. Wars are awful. Nobody wanted this war, we certainly didn't want this war, but we're forced to fight it because it's a war for our very existence.