Witkoff and Huckabee will visit Gaza to survey aid distribution sites

Washington – The special envoy of the United States. Uu. Steve Witkoff and the United States ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee are directed to Gaza on Friday to examine the food distribution sites and help and meet with people who live there, said White House Secretary, Karoline Leavitt.

Your visit is driven by a terrible humanitarian crisiswhile children and adults in Gaza are struggling to survive with insufficient food and toll to death For people trying to get help in Gaza’s mounts. President Trump said earlier this week that the United States and Israel will be associated to manage new Food centers In the region, but he said that Israel would preside over the centers to “ensure that the distribution is adequate.”

Leavitt said Witkoff and Huckabee have been in Israel together with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other leaders about the situation in Gaza. Netanyahu has said, incorrectly, that there is no “hunger” in Gaza, despite the emerging photos of demacred children and repeated warnings of food security experts.

“President Trump is a humanitarian with a big heart,” Leavitt said during the White House Press Conference on Thursday. “And that is why he sent a special envoy to Witkoff to the region in an effort to save lives and finish this crisis. Tomorrow, the special envoy Witkoff and the Huckabee ambassador will travel to Gaza to inspect the current distribution sites and ensure a plan to deliver more food and meet with local gazans to listen to Firstand on this oriental situation in the field. For the distribution of food and help in the region.”

Leavitt said the administration will provide more details once the president approves a plan. He also said that Witkoff and Huckabee meetings have had with Netanyahu and other leaders have been productive.

Trump at the beginning of this week contradicted Netanyahu’s evaluation that denied the hunger of tombs in Gaza. The president of the United States said that children in Gaza “seem very hungry.”

“There is a real hunger in Gaza, you can’t pretend that,” he told reporters.

The Humanitarian Foundation of Gaza backed by Israelí is also in question, a private food distribution organization that has faced Heavy criticism for their food delivery methods and the number of people who have been delicate trying to reach its distribution sites in Gaza.

The United States and Israel have supported the relatively new GHF to provide Gaza help over the United Nations. A group of Democratic senators, led by Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, urges the Trump administration to “immediately cease all the funds of the United States for GHF and the support of resumption for the existing mechanisms of coordination of help not addressed to the UN with better supervision to ensure that humanitarian aid reaches civilians in need,” the senators wrote in a letter to the secretary of the state. Marco Rubio.

A senior United States official told News themezone on Wednesday that the United States has committed $ 30 million for help in Gaza and that these funds would be distributed “the next day more or less.”

“The United States of America supports GHF, but we would support any other mechanism that delivers food and the other needs of the people of Gazán in a safe and safe way that are not manipulated or distorted or takes advantage of by Hamas, said the official, and added:” I would like to think that some of the NGOs are not triumphed now to GHF and say that, to work together for the Sake of the Gazans.

Margaret Brennan, Richard Escobedo and Camilla Schick contributed to this report.

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