# Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu maintains that there is no starvation in Gaza. To date, 147 people have died of malnutrition in Gaza since the conflict began. More than one-thousand people have been killed since May in desperate efforts to obtain food for their families. The Israeli military blames the United Nations for failing to collect and distribute the aid that reaches the territory. Netanyahu says his country is committed to achieving its war goals:
Netanyahu says there is no starvation in Gaza [SOUND]
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