The European Union's executive body recommended on Monday curbing Israeli access to its flagship research funding programme after calls from EU countries to increase pressure on Israel to alleviate the humanitarian crisis 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”

Netanyahu on Sunday denied that Palestinians in Gaza face starvation and accused Hamas of stealing humanitarian aid, a claim that U.S. officials have since contradicted. “There is no policy of starvation in Gaza, and there is no starvation in Gaza,” Netanyahu said.

Health officials in Gaza say Israeli strikes have killed at least 34 Palestinians. Israeli strikes have killed at least 34 Palestinians, health officials in Gaza said, a day after Israel eased aid restrictions due to a worsening humanitarian crisis.

Trump, alongside UK's Starmer, expressed concern over Gaza's humanitarian crisis, contradicting Netanyahu's claims of no starvation. He pledged US collaboration with European allies to establish food centers,

The British public are “revolted” at scenes of desperation in Gaza, Sir Keir Starmer said. The Prime Minister, appearing alongside Donald Trump at his Turnberry golf course in Scotland, described the situation in the Palestinian territory as an “absolute catastrophe”.

President Trump met with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Monday where the two leaders focused on the humanitarian crisis and mass starvation occurring in Gaza Trump also said he would announce a truncated deadline on Russia to reach a ceasefire deal in its war with Ukraine as well as threatening to impose secondary

The prime minister is also expected to raise the issue with Donald Trump when he meets with the US president on Monday