Mr. Huckabee, a Baptist minister, is the first evangelical to serve as American ambassador to Israel. Christian conservatives and the Netanyahu government are pleased.

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee on Sunday blamed the United Nations, The New York Times and Hamas for what he described as the “complete balagan” (Hebrew for chaos) surrounding the delivery of humanitarian aid in Gaza.

As global concern over the crisis in Gaza intensifies, Steve Witkoff, Trump's special envoy to the Middle East, visited an aid distribution site in the enclave.

Special envoy Steve Witkoff and U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee visited food distribution sites in Gaza on Friday, as the United States seeks to establish a plan to get more humanitarian aid into the war-torn enclave.