US special envoy Witkoff to visit Gaza to assess humanitarian crisis • FRANCE 24 English

handshakes and smiles as US special envoy to the Middle East Steve Wickoff met with Benjamin Netanyahu. The two discussed the worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza, which Wickoff will see for himself on Friday, according to the White House press secretary. Tomorrow, Special Envoy Whit and Ambassador Huckabe will be traveling into Gaza to inspect the current distribution sites and secure a plan to deliver more food and meet with local Gazins to hear firsthand about this dire situation on the ground. The special envoy and the ambassador will brief the president immediately after their visit to approve a final plan for food and aid distribution into the region. from the White House. The White House described Wickoff’s meeting with the Israeli prime minister as productive. It comes as Israel’s government is facing growing international pressure to allow more aid into Gaza, where, according to a global hunger monitor, famine is unfolding. Germany’s foreign minister is among those who has urged Israel to allow more supplies into the enclave. The humanitarian disaster in Gaza is beyond imagination. The Israeli government has a duty to allow rapid, safe, and sufficient humanitarian and medical aid to be provided so that mass death due to famine can be averted. Israel holds Hamas responsible for the crisis, as does the US president, who has described the situation in the enclave as terrible. The fastest way to end the humanitarian crisis in Gaza is for Hamas to surrender and release the hostages. Meanwhile, indirect Israel Hamas ceasefire discussions remain at a standstill. Hamas insists it wants to renew the talks, but not until sufficient aid reaches Palestinians in Gaza.

US envoy Steve Witkoff is scheduled to travel to the Gaza Strip on Friday to inspect humanitarian aid distribution sites and meet with residents — a rare visit by a foreign diplomat to the war-ravaged Palestinian territory, which is facing the threat of famine.
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14 comments

  4. it probably wouldn't help. Over the past few years, Israel has been known to continue bombing Gaza after the US visits.

  6. What’s the point? Trump will just give a little bit after this so people will think he is humane. Unless he stop supporting Netanyahu whatever he does is useless. To Hell he and Netanyahu will go.

  7. I remember my father telling me he had to travel from Vladivostok to Moscow in the 1950s. At the certain stretches during the 7 day trip on the transiberian express, soviet armed soldiers would walk in, close the curtains of his cabin and stand guard in front the windows for dozens of minutes, only to be repeated several times passing the Siberian tracks. Mr Witkoff may gonna love a puppet show espescially choreographed for him. Will he and his entourage play along with the facade choreographed by the joint Israeli/USA board of directors or will he just ask an independent tour of duty ?

  9. How can an israeli represent the US? The world needs laws against double agents of israel. Mexico has one as president, argentina, ukraine and more.

  11. They were using silencers on their guns while Witcoff was there! They were killing those people during his visit!

  13. No American contractor has ever killed anyone in 90 days of work securing the food aid sites, any shootings has occurred outside the gates of the aid sites by Hamas and the IDF who are still at war. Get the story straight.

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