Trump envoy visits controversial Gaza aid distribution site
Newshour
BBC
4.4 • 984 Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
President Trump says he wants to help the people of Gaza to live, following a visit by his special envoy, Steve Witkoff, to a controversial US and Israeli- backed aid site in the territory. Plus, the BBC investigates the cases of 160 children shot dead inside the Gaza Strip.
Also in the programme: Malawi hits its UN development goals for HIV and AIDS ahead of its targets; radioactive injections aimed at saving South Africa's rhinos; and we follow the market reaction to Donald Trump's global tariff deals -- and new US job figures.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service. I'm Celia Hatton, and I'm coming to you live from London. |
| 0:10.2 | Lots of news to bring you in this program from American nuclear submarines, possibly heading to new locations, to the global impact of the Trump administration tariffs. |
| 0:21.1 | But let's start this edition of NewsHour in the Middle East. |
| 0:24.5 | The U.S. envoy Steve Whitkoff visited Gaza today. |
| 0:27.9 | It was his first visit to the controversial aid distribution sites operating there, |
| 0:33.4 | sites that are being run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, or GHF, that's backed by the Trump administration and the Israeli government. |
| 0:42.3 | Mr. Whitkoff's visit follows near daily reports of deadly shootings at GHF points. |
| 0:48.8 | The UN reports at least 659 Palestinians have been killed in the vicinity of the site since they opened. |
| 0:56.5 | Although that's a figure the GHF rejects. |
| 0:59.9 | On social media, as he left, Mr. Wickhoff said he'd spent over five hours inside Gaza, |
| 1:05.5 | level setting the facts on the ground, assessing conditions, |
| 1:09.5 | a meeting with the GHF and other agencies. |
| 1:12.7 | Many Gazans have denounced the visit as a public relations stunt. |
| 1:17.5 | Israel does not allow international broadcasters, including the BBC, to report from Gaza. |
| 1:23.3 | Our correspondent John Donison reports from Jerusalem. |
| 1:28.7 | Donald Trump's man in the Middle East rolled into Gaza this morning |
| 1:32.4 | to see for himself what the president has called real starvation. |
| 1:37.1 | Steve Whitkoff visited the much-criticized GHF aid distribution sites, |
| 1:41.7 | but it's not clear how many Palestinians he spoke to. |
| 1:47.9 | Out looking for food, Mohamed Diab had these words for the American envoy. |
| 1:54.9 | Stop the war entirely. We don't want aid here. We come and get humiliated and shot at. |
| 2:01.5 | We are humiliated just for a loaf of bread. |
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