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AUTHOR:M.J. GDNUS
US President Donald Trump announced that he is working on a new humanitarian aid plan for the Gaza Strip, focused on providing food and basic necessities to the civilian population who have been suffering for months from hunger and limited access to aid.
In a brief telephone conversation with the American portal Axios, Trump said:
“We want to help people. We want them to survive. We want to feed them. This is something that should have been done a long time ago.”
Although he expressed concern about the increasing reports of starvation in Gaza, Trump shifted the responsibility to Hamas, claiming that the organization appropriates the aid that enters the enclave and then resells it.
Trump’s team, as stated, is actively working on the ground through special envoy Steve Witkoff and Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee. Both men visited aid centers run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a U.S.-Israeli-backed organization, on Friday.
White House spokeswoman Caroline Levitt said Trump plans to approve the new aid plan after Witkoff briefs him on the situation on the ground. However, in an interview with Axios, Trump said he had not yet received the report, but praised the envoy, saying, “He’s doing a great job.”
Details of the new aid plan are not yet known, nor whether aid will continue to be distributed exclusively through the GHF or other distribution channels will be included.
Trump has previously stressed that the United States intends to increase the amount of aid to Gaza, but has also called on other Western countries, as well as Israel, to step up their involvement.
Israel, meanwhile, is facing increasing international pressure for limiting aid deliveries to Gaza. Most of the aid is currently distributed through the GHF, which operates only in the southern and central parts of the enclave, forcing many Palestinians to make dangerous journeys to reach their basic necessities.
On Thursday, Witkoff met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The topics of discussion included the stalemate in ceasefire and hostage-taking talks, as well as the possibility of moving to a comprehensive agreement on Gaza, rather than the current phased agreements.
Trump declined to comment on the possibility, telling reporters: “You’ll see soon.”
On the social network X, Witkoff confirmed that he and Huckabee had spent five hours in Gaza, where they met with representatives of humanitarian organizations and assessed the situation on the ground.
“The goal of the visit was to provide the president with a clear picture of the humanitarian situation and to help develop a plan for delivering food and medical aid to the people of Gaza,” Witkoff said.
