CNN’s Wolf Blitzer continuously challenged Israel’s Ambassador to the United States, Yechiel Leiter, for claiming the charges of Israeli-imposed starvation in Gaza were fabricated.
During a lengthy interview Tuesday, Blitzer confronted Leiter with a video of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denying reports of wide-spread starvation, and another of U.S. President Donald Trump admitting, “That’s real starvation stuff, I see it. And, you can’t fake that.”
“Nobody could avoid seeing the pictures we’re seeing coming out of Gaza, although many of them are in the service of Hamas propaganda and some of them are are doctored in A.I., but there is definitely a crisis in Gaza,” Leiter said.
He continued, “I think what the president was referring to was the pictures of hunger. There is no large-scale starvation. There certainly isn’t a policy of starvation; I think there’s a lot of confusion on that issue.”
Leiter then ripped CNN for broadcasting “pictures of children who are suffering from cerebral palsy or cystic fibrosis, not from hunger, and yet, we’re condemned for it.”
Leiter added that there’s “a long history of pointing the finger at the Jewish state, and really has to stop.”
Blitzer interjected, “Yeah, but but you heard the president of the United States, President Trump, say, ‘There’s no doubt that there is starvation unfolding right now in Gaza.”
He then confronted Leiter with claims of “genocide” made by two Israeli human rights groups.
“As you know, ambassador, that’s a very, very sensitive word for Israel and for Jews worldwide because of the horrors of the Holocaust. How do you respond to that?”
“We absolutely condemn these reports, which are fallacious,” Leiter shot back. “Anybody is welcome to come and see the amount of aid that we’re pouring into Gaza.”