US envoy Witkoff visits aid operation in Gaza rejected by UN

By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Charlotte Greenfield

CAIRO/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy became the first high profile U.S. official to visit Gaza since the war began, touring a U.S.-backed aid operation on Friday that the United Nations says is partly to blame for deadly conditions in the enclave.

Hours after Steve Witkoff visited a site run by the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in Rafah, Palestinian medics said Israeli forces had shot dead three…