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Trump’s Mideast Envoy Tours Militarized Gaza Aid Site as Israel Continues to Attack Aid Seekers

HeadlineAug 01, 2025

As Gaza’s starvation deaths continued to mount, President Trump’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff and U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee toured an aid distribution site in Gaza run by the shadowy, U.S.- and Israeli-backed so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. According to the U.N., at least 1,373 Palestinians have been killed while trying to access food since Israel barred the United Nations and NGOs from distributing aid in Gaza. The majority of those killed were at GHF sites. Witkoff’s trip to Gaza comes one day after he met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem. Outside the prime minister’s office, families of Israelis held hostage by Hamas rallied in a protest to demand an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. 

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