U.S. President Donald Trump's Mideast envoy has visited a food distribution site in the Gaza Strip operated by an Israeli-backed American contractor whose efforts to deliver food to the hunger-stricken territory have been marred by violence and controversy.

By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Charlotte Greenfield CAIRO/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -President Donald Trump's Middle East envoy visited a U.S.-backed aid operation in Gaza on Friday, which the United Nations has partly blamed for deadly conditions in the enclave,

Steve Witkoff, the United States special envoy to the Middle East, visited a controversial US-backed aid distribution site in Gaza on Friday, where hundreds of Palestinians have died in recent weeks as they try to access what little food has entered the enclave.