"Netanyahu said that there wasn't starvation happening, amid sort of evidence to the contrary," Youssef said. "We started to see more photos coming out of people starving. The United Nations agency responsible said one in three Gazans are not getting meals for multiple days in a row."
"And so we started to hear from aid agencies, even inside Israel, and organizations sort of assessing that there was an increased starvation risk in Gaza."
"The totality of that, I think, compelled the president to say something, and I think, arguably, he was moved by the photos that he did see," Youssef added.