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Israeli Fire Kills at Least 18 in Gaza, US Envoy Visits Hostage Family Protest
GAZA STRIP, PALESTINE, AUG 1 – US envoys inspected Gaza aid sites amid UN reports that 1,373 Palestinians have been killed seeking help since May, highlighting ongoing risks in aid distribution during the conflict.
- On Friday, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee and special envoy Steve Witkoff visited Gaza, inspecting aid sites as the first high-profile US officials since the war began.
- Controversy erupted over GHF after reports that aid sites caused at least 859 Palestinians killed between May 27 and July 31, with over 500 seeking aid killed, prompting shutdown calls.
- Delivering more than one million meals a day, GHF announced its one hundred millionth meal delivery and received a $30 million pledge from the U.S. government.
- White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Witkoff and Huckabee will brief President Donald Trump to approve a final aid plan after their Friday visit, with Trump’s envoy promising more food deliveries.
- On Monday, the president hinted at a new Gaza aid plan after meeting UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, expecting European nations to collaborate with the US 'very soon'.
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US envoy visits Gaza aid distribution site
President Donald Trump's Middle East envoy visited a US-backed aid operation in Gaza on Friday, which the United Nations has partly blamed for deadly conditions in the enclave, saying he sought to get food and other aid to people there. Steve Witkoff visited a site run by the US and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) in Rafah. Humanitarian organisations and many foreign governments have been strongly critical of the GHF, which bega…
Over 10,000 Gaza families receive cash aid amid hunger crisis: UN
United Nations: Relief workers have handed cash to more than 10,000 hungry families in Gaza, who find little food on the market to spend on, UN humanitarians said. “Market prices remain highly volatile and out of reach for many,” the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Friday, August 1. OCHA said that nearly a week after the Israelis allowed the scale-up of aid and the safe passage for relief convoys, the assist…
The U.S. envoy visited one of the three distribution centres of the Ghf in Rafah and then the Wall of Weeping in Jerusalem
Washington Roundup: Senior US officials visit Gaza amid hunger crisis, Trump announces new tariffs
U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee and special envoy Steve Witkoff made a rare trip to Gaza Aug. 1, after President Donald Trump said the U.S. would be "going to be even more involved" in the response there.
Huckabee, Witkoff Visit Gaza to Evaluate Humanitarian Crisis
Trump administration officials visited Gaza on Friday to evaluate the humanitarian crisis and help create a new plan to alleviate it. ... The post Huckabee, Witkoff Visit Gaza to Evaluate Humanitarian Crisis appeared first on The New American.
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