U.S. State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce twice refused to criticize the war-crime proposal of Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir that the IDF should bomb food storage facilities in Gaza in order to pressure Hamas to release Israeli hostages. Since the IDF has already shut off all food and aid to Gaza over the last month, Ben-Gvir is demanding the malnutrition and starvation against Palestinians be sped up even more. He had also claimed that the senior U.S. Republicans whom he met at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort this week supported the proposal.
Bruce was asked whether the Trump administration backs Ben-Gvir’s plan, and she said that she would not comment. She indicated that she could not confirm that Ben-Gvir had actually called for such a thing. She went on to defend the State Department’s role in “getting food aid and assistance” into Gaza and repeated that she would not comment further on Ben-Gvir’s remarks.
