Cindy McCain says famine in Gaza has 'nothing to do with Hamas'

Cindy McCain, the widow of staunch pro-Israel US Senator John McCain, disputed Israeli allegations that Hamas is looting aid in Gaza and causing a famine. 

"This doesn't have anything to do with Hamas... it has simply to do with the fact these people are starving to death," McCain, the UN World Food programme’s executive director, said in an interview aired on Sunday by CBS. 

Asked if Hamas was looting aid as Israel says, McCain replied, "No. Not at all. These people are desperate....they see a World Food Programme truck coming in and they run after it," referring to starving Palestinian civilians.