President Trump and Starge agree to Gaza’s humanitarian crisis
President Trump said in a meeting with British Prime Minister Kiel Starmer that he is focusing on putting food in Gaza.
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump is meeting Gaza on August 1 as he dispatched two White House officials to Gaza to inspect food distribution centers and strengthened global scrutiny about the territorial hunger crisis.
Trump’s Middle Eastern envoy Stephen Witkov and Israeli U.S. ambassadors, Mike Huckabee, said “we will deliver more food and secure plans to meet with local Gazaans and hear in person about this tragic situation,” White House spokesman Caroline Levitt told reporters on July 31.
After their visit, Witkov and Hackabee are expected to meet with Trump and approve a final plan for food and aid distribution in the region amid Israel’s ongoing war with Hamas in Gaza.
Witkov and Hackabee spoke to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the morning of July 31st about providing food and assistance to the region, Leavitt said.
“It’s terrible what’s going on there. It’s terrible. People are very hungry,” Trump told reporters. “You know, the US gave us $60 million for food, which is a shame, because we can’t see the outcome, and in theory we’ve given people that we’re watching it pretty closely.
Alerts issued this week by the integrated food security stage classification increased the likelihood that hunger will be rolled out in Gaza. The United Nations World Food Program says that a third of Gaza’s population does not eat for several days at a time, and one in four people “bear hunger-like conditions.” Hamaslan Health Ministry, the leading source of Gaza’s health data, said more than 100 people have recently died of malnutrition.
Trump was defeated with Netanyahu earlier this week, saying he opposed the Israeli Prime Minister’s claim that there was no starvation among the people of Gaza and urged Israel to feed the enclave more.
When images of debilitating children in Gaza surprised the world, Netanyahu denied Israeli running a hunger campaign, calling such accusations “a bold face lie” and even rejecting that hunger was happening.
Trump also said on July 31 that Witkov would later travel to Russia ahead of the new 10-day deadline set by the president to agree to a ceasefire with Ukraine or to face US tariffs and other penalties. “I’m going to Israel, and he’s going to Russia, whether he believes it or not,” Trump said.
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