UN Food Agency Cuts Gaza Aid by a Third as Winter Approaches
A funding shortfall has forced the World Food Programme to cut its Gaza assistance by about a third — halving rations and dropping half a million people from support — just as colder weather closes in on families already living on the edge.
The UN World Food Programme says a severe funding shortage has forced it to cut food assistance in the Gaza Strip by around a third, leaving roughly half a million people without critical support as winter approaches.
The agency is now assisting about 1.1 million vulnerable people, down from 1.6 million last month, and food rations have been halved. Families who previously received two food parcels will now get one, along with a smaller bag of wheat flour. The number of hot meals served each day has fallen from 250,000 to 150,000.
Households in hard-to-reach areas, including communities near the Israeli army-controlled "yellow line," will now receive meals every other day rather than daily. Aid officials warn the timing could hardly be worse: colder, wetter weather is arriving for families, many of them displaced, whose shelters and savings have long since been exhausted.
The WFP has appealed to donor governments to close the funding gap before the cuts bite deeper. Without fresh money, the agency says, further reductions are unavoidable — in a territory where commercial food supplies remain fragile and most of the population depends on assistance to eat.
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