During his Scotland trip, President Donald Trump opened a new golf course, met with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and addressed Israel's conflict.

Starmer says he would take the step at a UN meeting in September - but Israel accuses the UK of harming "efforts to achieve a ceasefire".

Izzat al-Rishq, a top Hamas official, said Trump's remarks "blatantly echo" Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu 's "narrative and lies," in an Arabic statement released on Monday on Telegram. The Israeli leader previously dismissed claims that his government had been pursuing a policy of starvation in Gaza.

President Trump on Monday signaled a break with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the unfolding humanitarian crisis in Gaza, where Trump acknowledged there was “real starvation” happening.

For Trump, whose foreign policy approach is defined by a transactional dealmaking strategy, the starvation unfolding in Gaza provides a key test of whether his America First foreign policy can confront the crisis.

MAGA support for helping Palestinians grew more pronounced on social media over the weekend, adding heft from the political right to long-standing left-wing calls for aid.

Two images of supposedly starving children that were splashed on social media, world television screens, and newspaper front pages reportedly