Overview

• White House envoy Steve Witkoff visited Gaza on August 1 to inspect aid sites and secure approval for an expanded food distribution plan targeting vulnerable communities.
• France’s armed forces began parachuting 40 tonnes of non-perishable food from a Jordan-based C-130J in the first of four planned rotations over northern Gaza.
• UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini reported that nearly 6,000 aid trucks remain stranded at Gaza’s borders awaiting Israeli clearance to enter.
• Human Rights Watch denounced the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s distribution mechanism as a “mortal trap” after UN data linked 1,373 Palestinians killed near its sites while awaiting aid since late May.
• Israel has declared brief pauses in its operations to permit relief convoys, but agencies warn these corridors fall far short of meeting a population facing generalized famine.