U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that he pushed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to allow food and medicine into the devastated Gaza Strip.

US President Donald Trump tells reporters that he pushed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to allow aid into Gaza as the Israeli ban on humanitarian assistance nears the two-month mark. Trump is asked aboard Air Force One about whether the issue came up during his call with Netanyahu earlier this week.

Donald Trump has said he will not let Israel drag the US into a war with Iran. In comments published on the eve of a third round of nuclear talks between Washington and Tehran, the US president said he thought Benjamin Netanyahu,

Israel began its Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day events Wednesday night as similar events continue through Friday in the United States.

At the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon as “the main lesson of the Holocaust.”