Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday that Cindy McCain, chief of the World Food Program and widow of the late Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), was exaggerating claims of hunger in the Gaza Strip.
In a statement, Netanyahu described meeting with McCain in Israel on Wednesday, and said that she had acknowledged a dramatic improvement in food supply since Israel began surging aid into Gaza a few weeks ago.
However, since the meeting, McCain had been telling media that the situation in Gaza is worsening, and that people are “starving.”.
Netanyahu’s office issued a statement:
On Wednesday, 27 August, Prime Minister Netanyahu met in Jerusalem with U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham and Cindy McCain, Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP).
They discussed the humanitarian si