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.

The IPC warns that Gaza is facing a worsening famine amid restricted humanitarian access and rising hunger-related deaths.