Reporter Grills State Department Spokesperson Over Mechanism To Ensure GHF Aid Gets To Those At 'Starvation Point'

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During a State Department press briefing, Principal Deputy Spokesperson Tommy Pigott was asked about the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation's aid distribution.

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00:00Foundation quickly. Are you able to say whether you know whether the Gaza

00:05Humanitarian Foundation distributes food that is high nutrient, high protein, the

00:11food that is needed for children in particular that have now reached

00:14starvation point? Can you confirm whether the US government knows whether that

00:18type of food is being distributed by this organization that you had said a few

00:21weeks ago the US government is now going to support? Well I know that we have

00:24details in terms of what food they're providing. Let me take that back to get

00:27you the exact details. I just want to check because you again you're

00:32reiterating 90 million meals. Is the US government aware of any mechanism that

00:37has been used by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation to make sure any of those

00:41meals are getting to the most those that are now at the starvation point to make

00:47sure that it is not that is actually finding its way to the hospitals to the

00:51most critical children that need it. Do you have any oversight on that? Does the

00:55organization have any control over that because it sounds like they only have

00:58control over their distribution sites and once the food leaves that's it.

01:02There's no there's no way of telling where that goes. Well in terms of the

01:05details in terms of after at least distribution sites we'll take that back

01:08and see if we can get more details on that.

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