Witkoff and the U.S. ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, visited an aid site in Gaza run by the controversial Israel and U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) on Friday, as the United Nations said that over 1,373 Palestinians have been killed while seeking food since the end of May, including 859 at GHF sites.

( JTA) — The Israeli government bought a billboard in New York City’s Times Square to showcase the video released last week by Hamas of one of its Israeli hostages, Evyatar David. See our full guidelines for more information, and this guide for detail about canonical URLs.

In the video, David can be seen crossing off days on a makeshift calendar hung up on the side of an underground Gaza tunnel. Hamas published a video of hostage Evyatar David on Friday evening, which was later cleared for publication by the David Family.