JERUSALEM: President Donald Trump’s Center East envoy turned the primary high-profile United States official to go to Gaza because the conflict started, touring a US-backed support operation on Friday (Aug 1) that the United Nations (UN) says is partly responsible for lethal circumstances within the enclave.
Hours after Steve Witkoff visited a web site run by the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Basis in Rafah, Palestinian medics mentioned Israeli forces had shot useless three Palestinians close to one of many group’s websites within the metropolis on Gaza’s southern edge. Reuters couldn’t instantly confirm whether or not it was the identical location.
The UN says greater than 1,000 folks have been killed attempting to obtain support in Gaza because the GHF started working there in Could, most of them shot by Israeli forces working close to GHF websites.
The UN has declined to work with the GHF, which it says distributes support in methods which can be inherently harmful and violate humanitarian neutrality ideas, contributing to the starvation disaster throughout the territory.
The GHF says no person has been killed at its distribution factors, and it’s doing a greater job of defending support deliveries than the UN.
US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, who travelled with Witkoff to Gaza on Friday, posted on X an image exhibiting hungry Gazans behind razor wire with a GHF poster with an enormous American flag that learn “100,000,000 meals delivered”.
“President Trump understands the stakes in Gaza and that feeding civilians, not Hamas, have to be the precedence,” GHF spokesperson Chapin Fay mentioned in an announcement, accompanied by photographs of Witkoff in a gray camouflage high, flak jacket and “Make America Nice Once more” baseball cap with Trump’s identify stitched on the again.
“We have been honoured to temporary his delegation, share our operations, and display the impression of delivering 100 million meals to those that want them most,” Fay mentioned.
