Washington — U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff and U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee are heading to Gaza on Friday to survey food and aid distribution sites and meet with people living there, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said.

International outcry over images of emaciated children and increasing reports of hunger-related deaths have pressured Israel to let more aid into the Gaza Strip.

President Donald Trump did not specify which group or agency $60 million was sent to in Gaza. The White House and the U.S. State Department did not respond to requests for more information. The State Department approved a $30 million grant in late June to a U.

U.S. medics volunteering in Gaza called on President Trump’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff to visit Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis and “see what is really happening is a forced starvation of an entire population.

US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff is set to visit the Gaza Strip on Friday to inspect aid distribution centres, the White House has said. Witkoff and the US ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, will seek to "secure a plan to deliver more food and meet with local Gazans to hear firsthand about this dire situation on the ground,

Experts say a "worst-case" famine scenario is unfolding across the Gaza Strip.That's according to a new report published this week by a U.N.-backed commission that tracks food security worldwide.The starvation in Gaza is reawakening global attention to hunger crises unfolding around the world.

Public opinion about Israel’s conduct in Gaza appears to be changing in the United States and elsewhere as striking photos and videos of emaciated children and their starving parents emerge from the enclave,

Though there are larger hunger crises in the world in terms of sheer numbers, Gaza is, in many ways, the most intense. By September, leading humanitarian groups predict, 100 percent of the population will face acute food insecurity,