US special envoy Witkoff wants to travel to Gaza Strip

Mandatory east

US special envoy Witkoff wants to travel to Gaza Strip

The supply situation in the Gaza Strip is considered catastrophic. Helpers warn of a famine. US President Trump’s special envoy now wants to see the situation himself.

The US specialist Steve Witkoff and the American ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, will get an idea of the location in the Gaza Strip tomorrow. The spokeswoman for the White House, Karoline Leavitt, explained in Washington. The two want to inspect distribution centers for aid deliveries on Friday and draw up a plan for further aid deliveries. In addition, it is about “learning more about the dramatic location on site” from the people there.

Witkoff had already met the right -wing conservative prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel on Thursday. During their conversation, according to media reports, it is said to have been a catastrophic location in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli hostages in the violence of the Palestinian terrorist organization of Hamas and around Iran.

Local media had already reported that Witkoff could also visit the Gaza Strip. There he wanted to get a picture of the controversial distribution of relief goods by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) supported by Israel.

The few GHF distribution centers in the Gaza strip are internationally criticized – including because those seeking help can only reach them for long ways. This reports that large crowds have to move through active fighting zones. Another accusation is that Israeli soldiers who were supposed to secure the environment have repeatedly shot into the amount of those seeking help. The army denies this. According to UN, around 900 people are said to have died in this way.

Before the introduction of the new distribution mechanism by Israel, the UN had distributed around 400 distribution stations for relief goods over the entire Gaza strip.

Since March, Israel had only occasionally approved aid deliveries. As a result, the humanitarian situation was dramatic. The World Health Organization (WHO) warns of a fatal hunger crisis. Auxiliary and human rights organizations accuse Israel of targeting the population – and consider this as war crimes. The Israeli government rejects the allegations.

Since Sunday for the first time in months, larger aid deliveries have been brought back to the sealed coastal area with trucks, in which around two million Palestinians live.

US President Donald Trump recently insisted on more grocery deliveries for the needy civilian population. He also put pressure on Israel, but continued to emphasize that Hamas bears the main responsibility for the situation there.

The efforts for a ceasefire in the Gaza war had recently stalled-the US government called back their negotiation team from Katar’s capital Doha. Witkoff justified this with a lack of will of Hamas to want to achieve a ceasefire. The USA acts together with Qatar and Egypt as an intermediary between Israel and Hamas, since the two warring parties do not talk to each other directly. Leavitt now confirmed that Trump still wanted that all hostages are released.