The crisis has echoes of past humanitarian crises that left presidents wringing their hands over how to respond.

President Trump says the U.S. will partner with Israel to run food centers in Gaza. Mercy Corps CEO Tjada D’Oyen McKenna joins Chris Jansing to share her reaction to that plan and to explain what the people in Gaza need right now to survive.

U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff is expected to travel to Israel on Wednesday for talks on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, Axios reported, citing two U.S. officials. (Reporting by Doina Chiacu, Katharine Jackson;