Chancellor Friedrich Merz says he is considering stepping up pressure on Israel over the ‘catastrophic situation’ in the enclave - Anadolu Ajansı

NBC News Correspondents Matt Bradley, Vaughn Hillyard and Andrea Mitchell discuss the growing humanitarian concerns in the Gaza Strip. International Rescue Committee Senior Vice President Ciaran Donnelly joins Meet the Press NOW to explain what aid organizations are seeing on the ground and what more needs to be done.

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.

President Trump said the U.S. and Europe would launch a program to deliver food directly to Palestinians in Gaza as a deadly hunger crisis grips the territory.Speaking in Scotland with U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer,

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says no one in Gaza is starving: “There is no policy of starvation in Gaza, and there is no starvation in Gaza. We enable humanitarian aid throughout the duration of the war to enter Gaza – otherwise, there would be no Gazans.”

An analysis compiled by USAID officials says they failed to find evidence that Hamas engaged in widespread diversion of assistance in Gaza, ABC News has learned.

The United Arab Emirates and Jordan airdropped aid into Gaza on Sunday, as aid agencies warn the situation remains dire. This is the first airdrop in months as Israel has started daily 10-hour military activity pauses in parts of Gaza to let aid deliveries through.