One former military chief said that Israel is "well over a year past the point where we could have ended the war."

The number of Palestinians dying from starvation due to Israel's offensive and aid restrictions continues to rise even as more aid begins to enter the besieged enclave.

Witkoff and the U.S. ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, visited an aid site in Gaza run by the controversial Israel and U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) on Friday, as the United Nations said that over 1,373 Palestinians have been killed while seeking food since the end of May, including 859 at GHF sites.

While asserting “aid is flowing in, by land and by air every day,” COGAT asserted that “Hamas is pushing a fake famine narrative” while stealing the aid and selling it at a large mark-up. The Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) shared footage on Monday of “bustling markets” with large quantities of food to counter Hamas’s accusations that Israel is deliberately causing a famine in the Gaza Strip.