Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Donald Trump appeared on Friday to abandon Gaza ceasefire negotiations with Hamas, both saying it had become clear that the Palestinian militants did not want a deal.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said Palestinian militant group Hamas did not want to make a deal on a ceasefire and hostage release in Gaza.

They really didn’t want to make a deal,” the president said a day after the U.S. pulled out of ceasefire talks.

The past few months have pushed Gaza to a new level of distress. The World Food Program, part of the United Nations, said this week that the crisis in Gaza had reached “astonishing levels of desperation, with a third of the population not eating for multiple days in a row.”

Distressing video shows the dire effects of the starvation crisis gripping Gaza. Humanitarian aid organizations blame Israeli policies for the crisis and urge Israel to end its blockade of the enclave.

As hunger tightens its grip on Gaza, local journalists documenting the crisis are now starving alongside the people they cover.

The UN agency for Palestinians says it has thousands of truckloads of supplies near Gaza which it wants to deliver.

Most children their teams are seeing are “emaciated, weak, and at high risk of dying” if they are not treated urgently, the UN said in a statement on Thursday. "People in Gaza are neither dead nor alive,