The White House said Tuesday that details on a new plan to deliver aid to hungry Palestinians in Gaza will be released soon after US President Donald Trump floated establishing new “food centers” in the Strip, while providing little additional information.

During a Monday press conference with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Trump declared: “We’re going to set up food centers where people can walk in and [there are] no boundaries.”

“People [currently] see the food from thirty yards away… but they’ve got fences set up so nobody can even get it. It’s crazy,” Trump said.

Israel has yet to confirm that such a plan is in the works.

Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One on Tuesday, Trump was asked when the new food centers would be set up.

“Very soon,” he responded, reiterating that his administration has donated $60 million for Gaza aid.

He was apparently referring to the $30 million that the US has donated to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF). It was not clear whether the new food centers he spoke about would be related to the current three that are already being run by GHF.

Asked who will be running the food centers, Trump responded: “We’re going to be dealing with Israel.”

Israel to date has sought to avoid directly running aid distribution centers, instead preferring to have the IDF secure the perimeter around them. This has led to repeated incidents of shootings of Palestinians trying to reach the distribution sites. The IDF has said that it has only fired at those who posed a threat, but it has come under heavy criticism, as the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says that over 1,000 Palestinians have been killed in these shootings over the past two months.

Trump said Tuesday that he had last spoken to Netanyahu two days prior, adding that the Israeli premier also wants food to be properly distributed to Gazans.

“We think [Israel] can do a good job of it… They want to preside over those food centers to make sure the distribution is proper,” Trump said. “They don’t want Hamas stealing the money or stealing the food… [Israel] will do a good job. The food will be properly [distributed].”

“Those are kids [who] are starving… You see the mothers — they love them so much and there’s just nothing they seem to be able to do. They’ve got to get them food, and we’re going to get them food,” Trump said.

Asked for more information on the new aid plan referenced by Trump, White House deputy press secretary Anna Kelly told The Times of Israel in a statement: “President Trump wants to alleviate suffering for the people of Gaza because he has a humanitarian heart. He announced a new aid plan to help Gazans obtain crucial access to food — details are forthcoming.”

Whatever those details are, they don’t seem to have been shared with State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce, who told reporters during a press briefing: “We don’t know the framework of how something would proceed regarding the details.”

“I am waiting for the president to return, and don’t want to get ahead of him regarding announcements and what the framework would be,” Bruce said.

The State Department spokesperson said last week that the ceasefire deal under discussion between Israel and Hamas would include the establishment of a new humanitarian corridor to securely surge aid into Gaza.

She appeared to be referring to a separate track of negotiations that have been taking place in Cairo between Israeli and Egyptian negotiators to come up with a new mechanism for aid distribution during the truce.

But ceasefire talks subsequently broke down, with the US and Israel pulling their negotiators from Qatar due to frustration with Hamas’s response to the latest hostage deal proposal.

A source involved in mediation efforts told The Times of Israel last week that the talks in Cairo had been progressing, and that the emerging agreement would see a shift away from the GHF, while still satisfying the demands of Israel, which argues that Hamas has exploited existing UN distribution mechanisms to divert aid.

On Saturday, The New York Times — citing two senior military officials — reported that Israel has never found evidence that Hamas has “systemically” stolen aid from the UN. The IDF denied the story.

Hamas has opposed GHF in what Israel says proves that the US- and Israeli-backed organization is effective in boxing the terror group out of the aid distribution process.

International aid organizations have also come out against GHF as its mechanism for aid distribution has forced Palestinians to walk long distances, while frequently dodging IDF fire in order to pick up aid.

While GHF has touted distribution of what it says has been roughly 97 million meals in about two months, the boxes it hands out are filled with dry food products that still need to be prepared elsewhere in a war-ravaged Strip with scarce clean water, cooking fuel or equipment.

The increasingly dire humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip — including growing levels of malnutrition and children dying by starvation — led Israel on Sunday to declare that it would implement a “tactical” pause in daily military operations in densely populated areas of Gaza, along with several other changes, to allow for the safe distribution of humanitarian aid.

At the same time, Israel has denied using hunger as a weapon of war, accuses Hamas of engaging in a PR campaign claiming the contrary, and accuses the United Nations and other aid agencies of failing to pick up and distribute supplies delivered to Gaza’s border crossing points.

The UN has repeatedly claimed that Israeli authorities have refused its requests for collection and distribution authorization, and that dangerous and complex conditions inside Gaza make aid distribution very difficult.