Trump Administration Pressure Key to Israel’s Gaza Aid Shift

by Emmitt Barry, Worthy News Correspondent

(Worthy News) – U.S. President Donald Trump publicly acknowledged on Friday that the humanitarian crisis in Gaza was untenable. “We’re looking at Gaza. And we’re going to get that taken care of. A lot of people are starving,” he said while in the UAE.

On Sunday, his Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff confirmed Israel’s shift: “Everyone is concerned about the humanitarian conditions in Gaza… and there is no daylight between Trump and Netanyahu.”

The resumed aid will flow through international organizations for now — including the UN World Food Programme and World Central Kitchen — until a new framework known as the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) begins full operations later this month.

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