The UN World Food Programme has cut monthly food assistance in Gaza from about 1.6 million people this summer to 1.1 million from October after its funding fell by more than half compared with 2025.
The cuts affect ration boxes, cash payments for food and meals served at community kitchens. Shaun Hughes, the WFP’s representative and country director for Palestine, said winter is likely to worsen hunger. The agency needs more than £300m over six months to restore and sustain its programmes in Palestine.
Two-thirds of Gaza’s population face crisis-level food insecurity. Hughes said 200,000 people are at the more severe emergency level, where immediate supplies are needed to prevent deaths from hunger.
Large aid shipments helped end a famine declared in summer 2025, but most families still depend on food aid. More than a year after a ceasefire took effect, promised reconstruction has not begun and jobs remain scarce.
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