He will visit Witkoff and Huckabe Gaza to survey aid distribution sites

Washington White House journalist Caroline Levitte said that the American special envoy Steve Witkeov and the American ambassador to Israel Mike Hackabi are heading to Gaza on Friday to survey the food and assistance distribution sites and meet the people who live there.

Their visit is motivated by terrible The humanitarian crisisBecause children and adults in Gaza are struggling to survive without sufficient The death toll For people who are trying to get assistance in Mount Gaza. President Trump said earlier this week that the United States and Israel will participate in a new operation Food centers In the region, but he said that Israel will head the centers “to ensure that the distribution is appropriate.”

Levitte said that Wittakov and Hakapi were in Israel’s meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other leaders about the situation in Gaza. Netanyahu said, incorrectly, that there is no “hunger” in Gaza, despite the emerging pictures of comic children and repeated warnings of food security experts.

“President Trump is a human being with a great heart,” Levitte said at a White House press conference on Thursday. “For this reason, a special envoy was sent to the area in an attempt to save lives and end this crisis. Tomorrow, the special envoy, I Witskov and Ambassador Hakabi, will travel to Gaza to inspect the current distribution sites and secure a more experience plan immediately. To distribute food and help in the area.”

Levitte said the administration will provide more details once the president agrees to a plan. She also said that the meetings of Wittakov and Hokapi with Netanyahu and that other leaders were fruitful.

Mr. Trump earlier this week opposed the evaluation of Netanyahu, who refused to hunger in Gaza. The US president said that children in Gaza “look very hungry.”

“There is a real hunger in Gaza – you can not be fake,” he told reporters.

Also in the case is the Israeli -backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, and it is a special food distribution organization faced Severe criticism For ways to deliver food and the number of people who were killing In an attempt to reach the distribution sites in Gaza.

The United States and Israel have relatively supported the new GHF to provide assistance in Gaza to the United Nations. A group of Democratic Senate members, led by Senator Chris van Holin of Maryland, urges the Trump administration to “stop all American funding immediately to support GHF and resume the mechanisms of coordination of the non -existing aid that leads it with a reinforced monitoring to ensure that humanitarian aid reaches the needy civilians,” Senate members wrote in a letter to a government employee Marco Rubio.

A senior official in the United States told CBS News on Wednesday that the United States has adhered to $ 30 million to assist in Gaza and this money will be distributed “the next day or so.”

“The United States of America supports GHF, but we support any other mechanism that provides food and other needs of the people of Ghazan in a safe and safe way that is not tampered with, distorted or benefiting from Hamas, adding,” I would like to think that some non -governmental organizations that do not succeed at the present time.

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He contributed to this report.