Despite President Donald Trump’s repeated assertion in recent days that the United States has contributed $60 million for food to Gaza, U.S. pledges have been half of that amount, only a fraction of which has been actually disbursed.

As global concern over the crisis in Gaza intensifies, Steve Witkoff, Trump's special envoy to the Middle East, is set to visit an aid distribution site in the enclave.

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.

After a day spent searching for the absolute basics to sustain life — food, water, fuel to cook — the family sometimes has enough of all three for Abeer to make a meal. Usually it’s a thin lentil soup. But often there is nothing, and they all go to bed hungry.

Every morning, Abeer and Fadi Sobh wake up in their tent in the Gaza Strip to the same question: How will they find food for themselves and their six young children?

The Sobh family lives in a seaside refugee camp west of Gaza City after being displaced multiple times during the war between Israel and Hamas. The family of eight spends its days searching