Trump intends to launch big Gaza aid expansion, but funding is unclear
'The immediate plan is to scale up the number of sites up to 16 and begin to operate them as much as 24 hours a day to get more food to people, more efficiency,' Huckabee told Fox News on Wednesday evening. He described the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which currently operates four sites guarded by U.S. security contractors, as an 'American-based operation' that 'we stood up.'
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