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 said Tuesday that the U.S. will partner with Israel to run new food centers in Gaza to address the worsening humanitarian crisis there, but he and U.S. officials offered few additional details about the plan or how it would differ from existing food distribution centers.

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,