U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff to travel to Europe this week for meetings on Gaza
發佈日期: 2025-07-23 20:19
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U.S. President Donald Trump's Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff will travel to Europe this week for meetings on Israel's war in Gaza and to push for a ceasefire.
Fifteen people in Gaza starved to death in the past 24 hours, and more than 100 aid and rights groups have called on governments to take action on the growing hunger situation there.
The U.N. Security Council has urged the 193 U.N. member nations to use all possible means to settle disputes peacefully.
Explosions light up the night sky over Gaza as Israeli operations continue.
By day, Palestinians gather along the Rashid coastal road hoping to receive food from trucks possibly entering through the Zikim crossing. But many return empty-handed or did not return at all.
Israeli troops had opened fire on aid seekers Sunday, killing 85 Palestinians. The Israeli army said troops fired warning shots, adding that the reported death toll was greatly inflated.
Injured Palestinians were seen on car roofs, while others walked miles back from the Zikim area but only a few clutching sacks of flour
This displaced man said, "You negotiators sitting in Qatar and Turkey, what are you negotiating about? People are dying in Gaza. We have no one left in Gaza. We go to die to bring food and you sit in your chair eating in Qatar.
This as U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff was heading to the Middle East. The U.S. is trying once again to reach a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, a breakthrough that has eluded the administration for months.
TAMMY BRUCE, U.S. State Department Spokesperson: ""In my conversation with the secretary (Marco Rubio), he has noted that special envoy Witkoff is heading to the region now, to the Gaza area. And we all have, as the president and the secretary and the envoy, a strong hope that we will come forward with another ceasefire, as well as a humanitarian corridor for aid to flow, that both sides have in fact agreed to this."
Meanwhile, EU's top diplomat said on Tuesday that all options are on the table if Israel does not deliver on its pledges to facilitate humanitarian aid in Gaza.
A UK-based Gaza analyst said the EU's condemnation of Israel's action in Gaza is long overdue, but adds the statement signed by 28 nations this week lacks a plan of action.
NOMI BAR.-YAACOV, Fellow, Geneva Centre for Security Studies: "It's a good step in the right direction, long overdue, but words are not nearly enough. I think it is absolutely essential to take action. So where I see the statement of the 28 states lackingis in an action plan, and I think the action plan is known. It needs to be... to take care of an immediate humanitarian mechanism that will replace the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Fund, which has been a colossal failure."
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, in an interview with the Associated Press, said there is only one way to solve the crisis in Gaza.
ANTONIO GUTERRES, United Nations Secretary-General: "There is only one way out that is acceptable. That way out that is acceptable means that we have an immediate permanent ceasefire, an immediate and unconditional release of all hostages, and full humanitarian access without any restrictions, and paving the way for a serious political process leading to the two-state solution."
