On July 28, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump surprised the world with a statement in which he considered that there was a real famine in Gaza, which contradicts his previous positions that defended the "Gaza Humanitarian Institution" as a source of humanitarian aid. This came during his meeting with the British Prime Minister in Scotland, where he pointed to the failure of the current distribution mechanism, which human rights activists described as "death traps."

A report issued by the U.S. Agency for International Development confirmed that aid was not reaching Hamas, and that the aid management was successful before Israel intervened with the Gaza Humanitarian Institution, which turned into a tool for displacing populations and creating humanitarian crises, according to descriptions by UN and European officials.

Steve Witkoff, who is behind the Gaza Humanitarian Institution, is a key figure in exploiting aid as a pressure tool, as the institution was used in negotiations with Hamas, granting Israel and its allies additional leverage in controlling aid, and it is unlikely that Israel or Witkoff will relinquish control over the file anytime soon.

Scenes of horror were witnessed at aid distribution centers, where a child named Amir was shot after kissing the hand of an American officer, reflecting the scale of the humanitarian disaster. Trucks were also prevented from entering the sector between March and May, significantly reducing aid and depriving 90% of children under five of milk, while the hunger rate rose to 80%, with more than half a million Gazans on the brink of starvation.

Images of famine and protests against the institution spread around the world, especially in Western countries, amid rising Arab public anger, leading to tightened security measures in some Arab countries and increasing Israeli and American concern over the escalation of anger.

In a new scandal, it was revealed that major American companies own shares in a private security company that manages aid distribution centers, which have turned into tools for profit at the expense of the humanitarian tragedy, with the Trump administration providing massive donations to the institution, despite evidence of its exploitation in war profiteering.

UN and international organizations refuse to participate in the aid distribution mechanism through the institution, asserting that it politicizes humanitarian work and complicates the distribution process, putting pressure on the Trump administration, which may seek to change the mechanism either by abolishing it or modifying it, in order to alleviate international and internal criticism.

This change could be exploited to re-liquefy the previously suspended Arab grant of $100 million, and there may be consideration of forming an Arab security force instead of American companies, despite the resistance factions' opposition to that, which is an option under serious study.

In conclusion, Trump's statements represent a late acknowledgment of the famine, but they indicate an attempt to reproduce the policy of starvation in a new way, as any change outside the UN framework will turn aid into a pressure tool, rather than a means of salvation, which imposes on international organizations the rejection of politicizing and managing aid in a way that threatens the lives of civilian populations.