During an interview with PBS’s “Firing Line” released on Friday, World Food Programme Executive Director Cindy McCain said that she “can’t comment” on whether Hamas has the best interests of Palestinian civilians even though they have intercepted aid before, but she can say Israel isn’t prioritizing feeding Palestinians.

Host Margaret Hoover asked, [relevant exchange begins around 24:00] “Has the Israeli government, in your view, prioritized feeding Palestinians?”

McCain answered, “I don’t think so. I wish I could say — we, if — when we’re in there, it’s prioritized because we get the food to where it [needs to] go. So, I think, again, it comes back to this one word, access, that I keep saying, because we can’t do it unless we can get in at scale.”

Hoover followed up, “So if they were p

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