Some of those kids are — that’s real starvation stuff. I see it, and you can’t fake that,” Trump said Monday about the humanitarian crisis unfolding in Gaza, breaking with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

President Trump said today that the U.S. would do more to help the starving population in Gaza. After a meeting in Scotland with Britain’s prime minister, the president criticized the aid distribution effort his administration has backed in Gaza and said he wanted to create more easily accessible food sites.

President Donald Trump has expressed concern over the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, urging Israel to ensure food reaches the people there.

Speaking in Scotland, Trump said that the U.S. would set up food centers in Gaza as “we have to get the kids fed,” NBC News’ Chantal Da Silva writes. Trump said he had seen images of Palestinians on TV and that “those children look very hungry.” He later added that the scenes were “real starvation” and that “you can’t fake that.”

Trump said the facilities would be open-access, with “no boundaries” and “no fences,” and framed the effort as a direct response to the humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in Gaza. “That’s real starvation stuff,” he said. “I see it, and you can’t fake that. So, we’re going to be even more involved.”

As the death toll from two years of war in Gaza nears 60,000, a growing number of people are dying from starvation and malnutrition, fuelling international criticism of Israel over sharply worsening conditions.

President Donald Trump has long had a keen sense of the power of imagery, and pictures of children starving in Gaza are motivating him to redouble U.S. humanitarian aid efforts there

The Israeli government is defending a top military officer who dismissed images of starving Palestinians as “fake” over the weekend, despite President Trump stating Monday that he believes the pictures are real.