Cuts to food assistance in Gaza will reduce the number of people helped from 1.6 million to 1.1 million as winter nears and funding dries up. Families already struggling with insufficient rations face further hardship.
01Summary
- 01The World Food Programme is cutting daily hot meals from 250,000 to 150,000.
- 02Cash transfers to around half a million Gazans have been reduced since July.
- 03The number of people receiving flour and ration boxes will fall from 1.1 million to 600,000 per month.
- 04The WFP says it urgently needs $450 million (£338 million) to sustain critical operations for the next six months.
- 05Over 80% of Gaza's population is unemployed and two-thirds rely on food aid to survive.
02Why it matters
These cuts come as winter approaches and amid ongoing displacement, unemployment and restricted access to fuel and goods, worsening an already dire humanitarian crisis for most of Gaza's 2.1 million people.
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