WFP cuts aid to ‌500,000 Palestinians in Gaza amid funding shortages

It said it urgently needs a further $450 million to maintain critical operations in the occupied Palestinian territory over the next six months.As a result, the WFP said it would reduce ⁠the number of people receiving monthly assistance in Gaza from 1.6 ‌million to 1.1 million.

Rations will be cut from two food parcels per family to one, and bags of flour will be smaller.The UN agency said it would also reduce the number of hot meals provided, from 250,000 to 150,000 a day.

Families living in hard-to-reach areas, including near the so-called “yellow line” demarcating Israeli military control, will receive a hot meal every other day instead of daily.More than three years of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza following the Hamas-led October 7, 2023 attack on Israel, have brought the collapse of education, healthcare and the economy, while access to food, water, shelter and other basic necessities has become a daily struggle.More than….

Only one in five children consumes a sufficiently diverse diet while access to health services remains limited.An estimated 1.4 million people, or 67 percent of Gaza’s population, are experiencing acute food insecurity at crisis levels or worse.

This figure is down from 1.6 million people, or 77 percent of the population, at the end of 2025, however the WFP said the improvement “remains modest and fragile.”Funding shortfalls had already affected operations in the occupied West Bank, where the number of people receiving assistance was halved in September, from 400,000 to 200,000.

The UN agency says funding shortages threaten to reverse 'modest and fragile' progress on food security.