{"id":89106,"date":"2025-08-08T09:08:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T14:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=89106"},"modified":"2025-08-08T09:08:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T14:08:22","slug":"netanyahu-says-report-that-he-and-trump-got-into-shouting-match-over-gaza-aid-is-fake-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/netanyahu-says-report-that-he-and-trump-got-into-shouting-match-over-gaza-aid-is-fake-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu says report that he and Trump got into shouting match over Gaza aid is \u2018fake news\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By PHILISSA CRAMER<\/p>\n<p>(JTA) \u2014 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is rejecting an NBC News report that a recent conversation between him and President Donald Trump \u201cdevolved into shouting\u201d on the issue of humanitarian aid in Gaza.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_89107\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2197138303.avif\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89107\" class=\"wp-image-89107\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2197138303.avif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-89107\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu poses with President Donald Trump at the White House, Feb. 4, 2025. (Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>NBC reported that four sources characterized a July 28 phone call between the two leaders that way. That was the day Trump told reporters that he believed there was \u201creal starvation\u201d in Gaza, which Israel has denied, and said he was pressing Netanyahu to get more aid to hungry Gazans.<\/p>\n<p>Trump did not immediately respond to the report, which came in a story published Thursday evening about Israel\u2019s apparent preparations for further ground operations in Gaza. But Netanyahu\u2019s office issued a firm denial.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe report alleging that a shouting match occurred between Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Trump is total fake news,\u201d the office said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>In the intervening 10 days, Trump has continued to express concern about humanitarian conditions in Gaza but also has withheld any criticism about Netanyahu\u2019s ambitions to widen the war there in an effort to defeat Hamas, which it has been battling since Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. He has also called on Hamas to \u201csurrender.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Fox News on Thursday as he prepared to seek cabinet approval to \u201coccupy\u201d Gaza, Netanyahu said, \u201cI think President Trump has been terrific. He\u2019s supported us in so many ways. And he\u2019s giving \u2014 he understands that we have to get rid of Hamas.\u201d He stopped short of saying that Trump had given \u201ca green light\u201d to the offensive, instead saying, \u201cHe just says, \u2018I know Israel will do what it has to do.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu said he had not discussed his occupation plan with Trump but had talked about what he said was \u201cthe humanitarian surge that we\u2019re going to do, which will precede our final military action.\u201d<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Netanyahu%20says%20report%20that%20he%20and%20Trump%20got%20into%20shouting%20match%20over%20Gaza%20aid%20is%20%E2%80%98fake%20news%E2%80%99\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":89107,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,25],"tags":[208,1781,8790,8795,8788],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89108,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89106\/revisions\/89108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}