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The White House Special Envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, and the U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, will visit the Gaza Strip this Friday with the aim of "saving lives" and "ending" the humanitarian and famine "crisis" that is hitting and threatening to disappear the Palestinian population.
"Special Envoy Witkoff and Ambassador Huckabee will travel to Gaza to inspect the current distribution points and finalize a plan to deliver more food, as well as meet with the people of Gaza to learn firsthand about the serious situation on the ground," said White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt at a press conference this Thursday.
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The official announced that the order from Trump to send both US representatives to the Palestinian territory came after a meeting "very productive" of both with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials, in which they addressed the "much needed" delivery of "food and humanitarian aid to Gaza." The official announced that once Witkoff and Huckabee conclude their visit, they will inform Trump "immediately" about the situation "to approve a definitive plan on the distribution of food and humanitarian aid in the region". He also commented that once it has the approval of the American president, it will be detailed to the press. "President Trump is a humanitarian man with a big heart," said Leavitt. The meeting was held amid Trump's and his supporters' growing discontent over the situation in the Gaza Strip caused by the relentless bombings of the Israeli army and the constant siege against the Palestinian enclaves and regions occupied by Israeli settlers.This situation has led to supporters of the US president, including young people and far-right 'podcasters', question more and more the close relationship maintained by the US and Israel.
- Last week, humanitarian organizations and international news agencies warned that the situation in the Gaza Strip is dramatic, to the point that their own employees in the area are on the verge of starvation.
- In this context, the UN warned that the 2.1 million people living in the enclave suffer from food insecurity. According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, some 900,000 children are suffering from hunger and another 70,000 show symptoms consistent with malnutrition, to which are added nearly 1,000 killed by the Israeli Army while trying to get food.
- However, the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, rejected this July 28 the complaints about the famine in the Gaza Strip. "Israel is presented as if we were applying a famine campaign in Gaza. What a blatant lie! There is no famine policy in Gaza, and there is no famine in Gaza", he stated.
