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Tunisia leader shows Trump adviser images of starving Gaza children

Tunisia leader shows Trump adviser images of starving Gaza children
Tunisian President Kais Saied presented US counterpart Donald Trump’s senior Africa adviser with photographs of starving children in Gaza. (FILE/AFP)
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Updated 23 July 2025

Tunisia leader shows Trump adviser images of starving Gaza children

Tunisia leader shows Trump adviser images of starving Gaza children
  • Tunisian President Kais Saied presented US counterpart Donald Trump’s senior Africa adviser with photographs of starving children in Gaza

TUNIS: Tunisian President Kais Saied presented US counterpart Donald Trump’s senior Africa adviser with photographs of starving children in Gaza, official video of their meeting posted late Tuesday showed.
Saied told US envoy Massad Boulos, who is also the father-in-law of Trump’s daughter Tiffany, that “it is time for all of humanity to wake up and put an end to these crimes against the Palestinian people.”
“I believe you know these images well,” Saied was seen telling the envoy as he showed a photograph of what he described as “a child crying, eating sand in occupied Palestine.”
Saied showed Boulos several more images, saying that Palestinians in Gaza were subjected to crimes against humanity.
Israel is facing mounting international pressure over the catastrophic humanitarian situation in the Palestinian territory, where more than two million people have endured 21 months of devastating conflict.
“It is absolutely unacceptable,” Saied was heard saying as Boulos stood silently, occasionally nodding. “It is a crime against all of humanity.”
More than 100 aid organizations warned on Wednesday that “mass starvation” was spreading across the Gaza Strip and that their own colleagues were suffering acutely from the shortages.
The head of Gaza’s largest hospital said on Tuesday that 21 children had died from malnutrition and starvation in the Palestinian territory in the previous three days.
Israel says humanitarian aid is being allowed into Gaza and accuses Hamas of exploiting civilian suffering, including by stealing food handouts to sell at inflated prices or shooting at those awaiting aid.
Following his visit to Tunisia, Boulos flew on to the Libyan capital Tripoli on Wednesday, Tunisian media reported.


Russia dismisses German general’s comments about Russia attacking NATO as fear-mongering

Russia dismisses German general’s comments about Russia attacking NATO as fear-mongering
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Russia dismisses German general’s comments about Russia attacking NATO as fear-mongering

Russia dismisses German general’s comments about Russia attacking NATO as fear-mongering
  • Zakharova said Moscow had no plans to attack any NATO country
  • “It feels like part of a campaign to brainwash the population”

MOSCOW: The Russian Foreign Ministry on Friday dismissed a German general’s comments about the possibility of conflict between Moscow and Germany as baseless fear-mongering.
Lt. Gen. Alexander Sollfrank told Reuters in an interview earlier this month that a Russian decision to attack a NATO member state would depend on the Western allies’ posture, but that Moscow had the “current capabilities and combat power” to “kick off a small-scale attack against NATO territory as early as tomorrow.”
Asked on Friday about broader comments Sollfrank was purported to have made about German preparations for a possible conflict with Russia, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Moscow had no plans to attack any NATO country, but was acting to ensure its own security at a time when NATO was building up its forces near its borders.
“What hasn’t he said and declared,” Zakharova said of Sollfrank.
“It (talk of conflict between Russia and NATO) feels like part of a campaign to brainwash the population in order to justify their own mistakes, miscalculations, and crimes,” she added.