Live Trump: Gazans must be fed
Steve Witkoff, the US special envoy to the Middle East, and Mike Huckabee, the US ambassador to Israel, met Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel on Thursday.
On Friday, they will be given rare access to Gaza, Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, announced.
'Tomorrow, special envoy Witkoff and ambassador Huckabee will be travelling into Gaza to inspect the current distribution sites and secure a plan to deliver more food and meet with local Gazans to hear first-hand about this dire situation on the ground,' Ms Leavitt told a briefing on Thursday.
The men will brief the president immediately after the visit 'to approve a final plan for food and aid distribution into the region,' she said.
Photographs of emaciated children in the war-torn territory are beginning to turn the tide of public opinion against Israel's military campaign against Hamas.
Aid agencies are warning that hunger and malnutrition may already have reached a tipping point after two and half years of war, raising fears of mass starvation.
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