President Trump’s special envoy Steve Witcoff and US Ambassador visited Israel Mike Hukabi Southern gaza On friday Amid international resentment Starvation, lack of assistance and fatal chaos near support distribution sites.
Hakabi said that Witchoff and Hakabi privately visited one of the distribution sites of the run US and Israeli -backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
The purpose of the journey was “learning the truth” about the GHF sites, Hukabi wrote in a social media post.
“We got briefing from (IDF) and talked to people on the ground. GHF gives more than one million meals a day, an incredible achievement!” Hukabi said.
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Vitkoff and Hakabi visited a GHF site in Rafa, the southern city of Gaza, according to an official associated with the journey. The officer requested oblivion as he was not authorized to abbreviate the media.
GHF spokesperson Chapin Fee said in a statement, “President Trump Gaza understands and to feed citizens, not Hamas, priority. Today he sent his messenger to serve his eyes and ears on the ground, which is right that reflects their deep concern and commitment.” “We were honored to brief their delegation, share our operations, and show the effects of giving 100 million food to those who need them most.”
All the four distribution sites of the group are in the regions controlled by the Israeli army. In its entire month operations, these sites have become a flashpoint of desperation, with large -scale crowds of people gathered outside, but who are then on fire with Israeli forces or trampled into the resulting crush.
The Israeli army says it has only launched warning shots on those who reach their forces, and GHF says its armed contractors have used only pepper spray or warning shots to control the crowd. But in the last five months, there has been a frequent pattern of Israeli bullets and even heavy weapons killed around GHF sites, with death in hundreds.
Vitkoff’s visit comes a week later when American officials moved away from the ceasefire talks in Qatar, convicted Hamas and promised to seek other ways to save Israel’s hostages and secure Gaza.
White House press secretary Karolin Levit said on Thursday that he was sent to prepare a plan to promote food and aid delivery as a part of an attempt to “save life and end the crisis, while Shri Trump wrote on social media that the fastest way to end the crisis would be to surrender Hamas and leave the lover.
International organizations have said that Gaza is on the verge of famine for the last two years. The leading International Authority of Food Crisis, integrated food safety phase classification, stated that recent developments, including Israeli’s complete blockade assistance for 2 1/2 months, means “the worst condition of famine is currently playing in Gaza.”
Although the flow of aid has resumed, including the aidrops, the amount in Gaza is much less than the requirement of the assistance organizations. A safety breakdown in the area has almost impossible to give food safely to Palestinians to stay hungry; Most of the limited assistance are recorded and later sold at excessive prices.
In a report released on Friday, Human Rights Watch called it “an flawed, military aid distribution system, which has converted aid distribution into regular bloodbeaths.”
Israel’s army and the Prime Minister’s Office did not respond to the request of the comment on the report.
A video of July 30 published on Thursday by the United Nations office for the coordination of human affairs was shown to a support convoy after a border crossing, where the mob hummed the ground, where the mob gathered.
Olga Cherevako, a member of the Ocha Staff, said, “We met thousands of hungry and desperate people on the road, who directly stopped everything from the back of our trucks.”
The war between Israel and Hamas began when Hamas attacked Southern Israel on 7 October 2023, killing around 1,200 people and kidnapped 251 others. They still hold 50 hostages, which are considered about 20 alive. Most other ceasefire or other deals are released.
According to Gaza’s Hamas-Interested Health Ministry, more than 60,000 Palestinians have been killed by an anti-Animal aggressive Israeli. Its count does not distinguish between terrorists and citizens. The ministry works under the Hamas government. The United Nations and other international organizations see it as the most reliable source of data on casualties.
Haley Oat contributed to this report.