US envoy visits Gaza aid operation the UN calls unsafe
US President Donald Trump’s Middle East ambassador visited a US -backed aid operation in Gaza, where the United Nations accused the deadly conditions in the settlement region, and said he was trying to get food and other help to people there.
On Friday, Steve Witkoff visited a site operated by the US and Israeli Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in Rafah in the Palestinian region, where Israel fought with militant group Hamas.
Humanitarian aid organizations and many foreign governments strongly criticized the GHF, which started operations in late May. The global hunger monitor warned that famine has emerged in Gaza this week.
Hours after Witkoff’s visit, Palestinian medical officials reported that Israeli forces hit three Palestinians near one of the sites of the city on the southern edge of Gaza. Reuters could not confirm immediately if there was the same place.
The Israeli army said that the soldiers are still investigating the incident in which they described as the “gathering of suspects” approaching their troops hundreds of meters away from the aid area.
The UN says that more than 1000 people have been killed in Gaza since GHF has started to operate, most of them have been killed, most of them are withdrawn by Israeli forces operating near GHF fields.
The Israeli Army admitted that their forces had killed some Palestinians looking for help and said that they gave new orders to their troops to improve their responses.
The UN refused to work with GHF, who violated the principles of dangerous and human neutrality due to its nature, and said that it contributed to the hunger crisis in the region.
GHF says no one was killed at the distribution points and has done a better job than the UN to protect aid delivery.
Israel blames Hamas and the UN for not reaching the desperate Palestinians in Gaza and introduced the GHF distribution system and said it would prevent the seizure of aid materials by Hamas. Hamas refuses to play help.
The indirect negotiations between the parties ended in locking last week, aiming to achieve a 60 -day ceasefire and hostage release agreement.
Hamas released a video of Israel hostage Evyatar David on Friday in one of the thin -looking tunnels as a skeleton. On Thursday, the Allied Islamic Jihad Militant Group published a video of pledge Rom Braslavski and cried for release and begged.
Witkoff visited Gaza the day after meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Israel is under international pressure on the collapse of Gaza since the beginning of the war and the increasing hunger between the population of 2.2 million.
Gaza medical officials say that Israel has died without any malnutrition without malnutrition after Israel has cut all the ingredients for about three months from March to May.
Israel said that in some regions, it has taken steps to allow more help, including the struggle for a part of the day and to announce protected routes for help convoys.
On Friday, the Israeli army said that 200 trucks assist were distributed by the UN and other organizations on Thursday and expected hundreds of more from the border crossings in Gaza.
The UN says that thousands of trucks are still waiting if Israel allows them to allow the entry of humanitarian assistance without strict security measures, without strict security measures.
Israel began to allow food drops this week, but the UN agencies say it is a bad alternative to allowing more trucks. On Friday, the Israeli army said that 126 food packages were ventilated by six countries, including France, Spain and Germany for the first time.
According to the Israeli figures, the Gaza War began when Hamas killed more than 1200 people and took 251 hostages in the attack on Southern Israel on 7 October 2023. According to Gaza Health officials, Israel’s attack has killed more than 60,000 Palestinians since then.
