President Donald Trump repeated a US pledge to help get food to Palestinians in Gaza when he was asked at the White House on Monday about Israeli plans for an expanded offensive in the territory.
Trump did not offer his views on Israel's operations. He made the comments to reporters in the Oval Office.
Trump said at the end of April, while talking to reporters aboard Air Force One, that he pushed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to allow food and medicine into the devastated Gaza Strip.
"Gaza came up and I said, 'We've got to be good to Gaza ... Those people are suffering,'" Trump said.
"We're going to take care of that. There's a very big need for medicine, food, and medicine, and we're taking care of it," he said in response to the issue of opening up access points for aid into Gaza.
Asked how Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded, Trump said: "Felt well about it."
Gaza without aid since March
No aid has been delivered into the strip since March 2. Israel has said it would not allow the entry of goods and supplies into Gaza until the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas releases all remaining hostages.
The UN World Food Programme had said it ran out of food stocks in Gaza.
"Hunger is spreading in Gaza, malnutrition is deepening in Gaza, injured people and other patients remain untreated in Gaza, and – as we have said before – people are dying," UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said on the same day Trump spoke.