US envoy visits aid site in Gaza: ‘This was a public relations visit’, analyst says

US envoy Steve Witkoff visited an aid distribution site in Gaza run by the Israeli-US Gaza Humanitarian Fund (GHF) on Friday (August 1) amid global outrage over shortages and deadly chaos. For more analysis, FRANCE 24’s Yinka Oyetade is joined by Scott Lucas, professor of International Politics at the Clinton Institute. “This was a public relations visit to try to show a ‘wonderful aid operations in Gaza’, even as we know that the prevalent story is that of what is effectively now a famine with mass starvation”, he said.