In late June, the U.S. State Department approved the $30 million U.S. Agency for International Development grant for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a U.S.- and Israeli-backed initiative that launched in May after Israel suspended aid in March. (USAID was disbanded as of July 1 but merged its remaining operations with the State Department.)

Some of those kids are — that’s real starvation stuff. I see it, and you can’t fake that,” Trump said Monday about the humanitarian crisis unfolding in Gaza, breaking with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.