Top Trump administration officials will travel into the Gaza Strip on Friday to inspect food distribution amid international outrage over increasing deaths from starvation and criticism that U.S. efforts to distribute food are contributing to suffering and death.

White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said Thursday that Steve Witkoff, President Trump’s special envoy for peace missions, and U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee will travel into Gaza to “inspect the current distribution sites and secure a plan to deliver more food and meet with local Gazans to hear first hand about this dire situation on the ground.”

Leavitt said Witkoff and Huckabee are expected to brief Trump tomorrow after their visit and that the president will “approve a final plan for food and aid distribution.”

The administration has provided little to no details on Trump’s announcement, made earlier this week, that the U.S. would set up “food centers” in Gaza.

Trump made the promise after acknowledging starvation among the population in the Strip, in a rebuke to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s claims that........

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