President Donald Trump contradicted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s assessment on starvation in Gaza and announced a plan for new “food centers” in the enclave. CNN’s Nic Robertson reports from Jerusalem.

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Donald Trump has announced that the United States plans to establish new food distribution centers in Gaza, indicating dissatisfaction with the current aid distribution managed by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a US-Israeli backed group. Trump suggested that the existing system, which has faced criticism due to high tensions and casualties, will be replaced by a new approach, potentially increasing the role of UN aid.

In addition to addressing humanitarian aid, Trump discussed the ongoing hostage situation in Gaza. He emphasized that negotiations are the best way to secure the release of hostages, acknowledging the difficulty of the situation and the limited number of hostages believed to be alive. Trump also hinted at knowledge of the hostages' locations but reiterated that a non-violent approach is preferable.

Trump: U.S. to set up ‘food centers’ in Gaza

was asked a very specific question. Do you believe what Prime Minister Netanyahu is saying, that there's no starvation? And he said, it's very difficult because of what you see on television, those images, the children. And as you say, he said, you can't fake that stuff. So Donald Trump is clearly indicating he is not taken in by what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is saying. And I think what the president went on to say about the new distribution centers is illuminating, again, of conversations that will have been had between the White House and between Prime Minister Netanyahu and his government because they are changing up the way that aid is distributed on the ground. The criticism, the deaths, the 14 people killed today, more than 10 killed yesterday, and so on and so forth, more than 1,000 since the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, the US-Israeli-backed group that distributes aid through these very narrow, wired channels where tensions are high, people are close to the aid, everything President Trump was describing there, he says they're going to undo. They're going to get rid of it. So is he indicating here that the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation will no longer run those places? He's certainly indicating that he's dissatisfied with the way that they're running, and they're going to be done in a different way. So I think we're seeing potentially a marginalization of that program and an increase if it actually happens over time of the UN aid coming in. And I think there were other areas where President Trump spoke about what's happening in Gaza and gave illuminating answers to some of the things that we are looking for questions about, answers about, rather, specifically hostages. Yeah, what did he say about the hostages? Yeah, he seemed, again, this was an area where you got the sense that he was publicly weighing up two ways to do it. He said, you know, he was asked the question, what do you do about the hostages? And he said the best way to do it is through negotiations and talks. And then he spoke about there's only 20 living hostages left. And he said, as he's said many times, he always said that that's going to be the moment that Hamas wants to hold onto them, that getting the rest of the hostages out alive is going to be a really tough thing. And then he started postulating this idea about you could go in and be ruthless and violent, he said, to try to get those hostages out, but indicated that you wouldn't get them all out. And in the context of that, he said, we know where the hostages are. Now, it's always sort of been roughly understood that perhaps the IDF do know where they are, are afraid to go because of reaction and retribution against those hostages. But Trump's kind of putting in the public domain here what sounds like conversations that have been had over the decisions to take. But clearly, he is preferring the negotiations path here. And it's not clear that there's momentum in that at the moment.

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