Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday that Cindy McCain, chief of the World Food Program and widow of the late Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), was exaggerating claims of hunger in the Gaza Strip.

In a statement, Netanyahu described meeting with McCain in Israel on Wednesday, and said that she had acknowledged a dramatic improvement in food supply since Israel began surging aid into Gaza a few weeks ago.

However, since the meeting, McCain had been telling media that the situation in Gaza is worsening, and that people are “starving.”.

Netanyahu’s office issued a statement:

On Wednesday, 27 August, Prime Minister Netanyahu met in Jerusalem with U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham and Cindy McCain, Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP).

They discussed the humanitarian si

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